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(Joel)Blogger910125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-8366173256156757603Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:30:00 +00002018-02-15T08:30:55.619-05:00#InCopyrightBHLExpandingAccessbotanyEABLflowersopen accesspermissionsplantsBHL Gains Works on the Diverse Plant Genus ‘Hoya’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-011Qxal4dZc/WoRtOj3Z3bI/AAAAAAAAHb4/R0ZwXbzXe5Y8wJBxklT_N-fXfBct7qRyACLcBGAs/s1600/hoyanew6klop_0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="675" height="360" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-011Qxal4dZc/WoRtOj3Z3bI/AAAAAAAAHb4/R0ZwXbzXe5Y8wJBxklT_N-fXfBct7qRyACLcBGAs/s400/hoyanew6klop_0001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Hoya fetuana</i> on cover of <i>Hoya New</i>, v.6: issue 4, 2017. Photo by Robert Dale Kloppenburg. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2BuX7ll">http://s.si.edu/2BuX7ll</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Robert Dale Kloppenburg is definitely a dedicated botanist. As of January 2018 - when he celebrated his 97th birthday - he has named 234 plant species, mainly in the flowering genus <i>Hoya</i>, which has been his focus for close to forty years since his retirement.<br /><br />Kloppenburg and the <a href="http://www.international-hoya.org/">International Hoya Association</a>, of which he is president, have made some generous contributions to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, with funding of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project. Currently available on BHL are:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/131053?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Fraterna : Official Bulletin for International Hoya Association</a></i> (1991-2006): Contributed by International Hoya Association and digitized by Harvard University Botany Libraries and The New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.&nbsp;</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/125430?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Hoya New</a></i> (2013-2017): Published and contributed by Robert Dale Kloppenburg.</li></ul><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/131053?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Fraterna</a></i> provides a wealth of information on <i>Hoya</i> species and hybrids, for botanists and horticulturalists, as well as the association’s news updates.<br /><br /><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/125430?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Hoya New</a></i> presents new species descriptions with photos and identification keys.<br /><br />Also currently available on BHL are Kloppenburg’s titles:<br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/135351?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Ganges Hoya</a></i> (2008)&nbsp;</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/135389?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Malaysian Hoya Species : A Monograph</a></i> (2004)</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/135408?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Samoan Hoya Species : Preliminary Presentation</a></i> (2014)&nbsp;</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dgyU7nJMids/WoRsiUlv6MI/AAAAAAAAHbw/8kvQRr2nfP0a4bddqGq8OPpEKiruqBtkQCLcBGAs/s1600/fraternaofficial1814inte_0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="331" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dgyU7nJMids/WoRsiUlv6MI/AAAAAAAAHbw/8kvQRr2nfP0a4bddqGq8OPpEKiruqBtkQCLcBGAs/s400/fraternaofficial1814inte_0001.jpg" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Hoya andalensis</i> on cover of <i>Fraterna</i> v.18: no. 1, 2005. Photo by Kim F. Yap. Contributed by International Hoya Association and digitized by The New York Botanical Garden. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2EoGlH0">http://s.si.edu/2EoGlH0</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The <a href="http://www.international-hoya.org/">International Hoya Association</a> originated in 1988 as a USA west coast interest group which published a newsletter, first bi-monthly and then quarterly. By the end of their second year, international interest had allowed the group to expand to a non-profit with global membership. An affiliated group, ‘<a href="http://www.swedishhoyasociety.com/">Svenska Hoya Sõllskapet</a>’ based in Borlõnge, Sweden, also publishes a quarterly magazine about hoyas.<br /><br />What are these plants? The <a href="http://www.international-hoya.org/">association’s website describes the diverse genus</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"The genus <i>Hoya</i> is found in South East Asia through Australia. They are adaptable plants found everywhere from true rain forests through the slopes of the Himalayas, from semi-arid niches in Australia to damp forests. They range from vines, the most common form, to shrub-like growth. Most are epiphytic [growing on other plants]. Hoyas are in the family commonly known as milkweeds."</blockquote><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-831nZiUFRjI/WoRuOsUo9fI/AAAAAAAAHcE/d4owgbOtUhcC-utpOJLcGeNURgbeJd6wQCLcBGAs/s1600/hoyanew1klopb_0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="783" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-831nZiUFRjI/WoRuOsUo9fI/AAAAAAAAHcE/d4owgbOtUhcC-utpOJLcGeNURgbeJd6wQCLcBGAs/s400/hoyanew1klopb_0004.jpg" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parts of <i>Hoya bebsguevarre</i> described in <i>Hoya New</i>, v.1: no.4, 2013. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2EotCQx">http://s.si.edu/2EotCQx</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />“What interests me most about hoyas is the vast diversity, the genetic differences and their possible evolutionary significance,” Kloppenburg shared in <a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53668452?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">an interview in <i>Fraterna</i></a>. “I am of the opinion that we have collected and identified less than 1% of the wild hoya species.”<br /><br />As an <a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52628528?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYBG">opening message for <i>Hoya New</i></a>, Kloppenburg explains how the work of horticultural professionals and hobbyists can contribute to the conservation of biodiversity:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"When a species is collected from the wild, I feel it is wise to identify it, propagate it, and name it. In this way it will eventually get into the commercial channels, be distributed to all those interested in the genus and thus be preserved. If in the future the species is lost through natural causes or forest destruction it will still be here on earth in your collection."</blockquote><br />Kloppenburg began studying the genus <i>Hoya</i> in the Philippines in 1981. He had graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, shortly after WWII and worked as a plant breeder research agronomist. Since his retirement in 1986, he has continued to study hoyas, traveling extensively in the South Pacific. His data has been donated to UC Berkeley. In 2016, he reached out to Smithsonian Libraries to offer publications, and agreed to contribute the material to Biodiversity Heritage Library. His assistant, Karen Case, assisted with the permissions process.<br /><br />“It has been a most exciting journey to be hosted with such a prestigious organization as the Biodiversity Heritage Library, for which I will be eternally grateful,” Kloppenburg says. “I hope my work will help others to become interested in hoyas, and that they will carry on the discovery of new species in the future.”<br /><br />Meanwhile, he’s still studying plants in the genera <i>Hoya</i>, <i>Dischidia</i> and <i>Eriostemma</i>. “I no longer travel, so I depend on others, mainly in the Philippines, to send me material,” he says.<br /><br />Many thanks to the International Hoya Association and to Robert ‘Dale’ Kloppenburg for their commitment to sharing biodiversity research, and to Karen Case for helping to facilitate the process.<br /><br /><b><i>By: Elizabeth Meyer&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Library Project Assistant&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University&nbsp;</i></b><br /><br /><b>Sources:</b><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>International Hoya Association website:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.international-hoya.org/aboutus.asp">http://www.international-hoya.org/aboutus.asp</a>&nbsp;</li><li>Robert Dale Kloppenburg’s website:&nbsp;<a href="http://hoyardk.wixsite.com/kloppenburg">http://hoyardk.wixsite.com/kloppenburg</a></li></ul></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/02/bhl-gains-works-on-diverse-plant-genus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-7130938268306962343Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:37:00 +00002018-02-13T07:37:10.130-05:00internshipBHL Internship Opportunity: Digital Content Internship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Biodiversity Heritage Library is looking for a Digital Content Intern for Summer 2018.<br /><br />Hosted through the Smithsonian Libraries, this is an unpaid, virtual internship. Interns will work remotely and should should have their own computer and internet access, as well as video conferencing capability.<br /><br /><b>Applications are open until 23 March 2018 or until filled.</b><br /><br /><b>Internship Description:</b><br /><br />The BHL Digital Content Intern will work closely with the Digital Collections Manager to contribute digitized books and metadata to the BHL collection. Interns will learn various digitization workflow tools to track collection management and curation activities, enhance metadata, and process digital files for inclusion. Routine activities will include identifying key gaps in BHL's collection, preparing digital books and catalog records for upload, adding descriptive item and page level metadata, ensuring copyright compliance and documenting workflow tasks.<br /><br />Ideal candidates will possess great attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to communicate proactively and work independently. Preference given to students with metadata or cataloging experience. Students enthusiastic to learn about collection management and curation in digital libraries are strongly encouraged to apply. <br /><br /><b>How to Apply:</b><br /><br />All applications must go through the Smithsonian Online Appointment System: <a href="https://solaa.si.edu/">https://solaa.si.edu</a>. Select Smithsonian Institution Libraries as the unit, Smithsonian Institution Libraries Internship Program as the program and then the "Biodiversity Heritage Library Digital Content (VIRTUAL)" project. <br /><br />Questions or comments? <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/contact#/comments">Send us feedback</a> or write to feedback@biodiversitylibrary.org. </div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/02/bhl-internship-opportunity-digital.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-8206381868447888398Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:00:00 +00002018-02-09T10:54:12.130-05:00#BHLFNPArthur CronquistBHL field notes projectfield notesherbariumNYBGThe New York Botanical GardenDr. Arthur Cronquist and his Botanical Field Notes <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden is one of many partners on the Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project which was generously funded by the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR). As its contribution to the project, NYBG selected 91 field notebooks for digitization. Nine different collectors are represented in the selected volumes. The bulk of the selected volumes — a total of 61 — document the botanical collecting of Dr. Arthur Cronquist (1919-1992), a pre-eminent twentieth-century American botanist who spent most of his career at NYBG. The Cronquist field notes date from 1941 to 1990 and while most document work done in the continental United States, other countries are also represented including the former Soviet Union, a region of great interest to Cronquist.<br /><br /><b>Dr. Arthur Cronquist&nbsp;</b><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-03JVTcnnO9c/WnsjrGpdJ3I/AAAAAAAAAzU/ZDf1Vpo3PH0clG0SnJiptdodRMeD2XflQCLcBGAs/s1600/cronquist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="190" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-03JVTcnnO9c/WnsjrGpdJ3I/AAAAAAAAAzU/ZDf1Vpo3PH0clG0SnJiptdodRMeD2XflQCLcBGAs/s1600/cronquist.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arthur Cronquist in his office at NYBG, 1980s.</td></tr></tbody></table>Cronquist's professional accomplishments were numerous and varied. He was recognized internationally as an expert in the Asteraceae (also known as Compositae), the largest plant family in terms of number of described species. His other professional achievements include floristic studies, development of a taxonomic classification system and authorship of several widely used botany textbooks. Floristics refers to study of the types, numbers, distributions and relationships of plant species within a given, delimited area. Theodore Barkley wrote about Cronquist:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Over the years, he was variously connected to nearly every major floristic project in temperate North America (and even one in the Galapagos), whether as author, coauthor, contributor, or consultant."&nbsp;<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></blockquote>The list of projects worked on by Cronquist includes Compositae in <i>The New Britton &amp; Brown Illustrated Flora</i> (Gleason, 1952); Compositae in <i>Flora of Idaho</i> (Davis, 1952), <i>Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest</i> (Hitchcock et al., 1955-1969), <i>Manual of the Vascular Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada</i> (Gleason &amp; Cronquist, 1963 [ed. 2, 1991]) and the fifth volume of the multi-volume <i>Intermountain Flora</i> (1994) to name just a few.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JK7MDdEfvhE/WntMA4qhjMI/AAAAAAAAA0I/oAeRQInx3lMMg_N_sI-bpO4IDzwQe-HYwCLcBGAs/s1600/Erigeron_maguirei%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="512" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JK7MDdEfvhE/WntMA4qhjMI/AAAAAAAAA0I/oAeRQInx3lMMg_N_sI-bpO4IDzwQe-HYwCLcBGAs/s400/Erigeron_maguirei%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Erigeron maguirei,</i> named by Cronquist in honor of Dr. Bassett Maguire, an early mentor. Endemic to Utah, Maguire's Fleabane is a species of conservation concern and is a member of the Asteraceae, one of Cronquist's major research foci.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />While eulogizing Cronquist at a memorial service held at NYBG in 1992, Dr. Peter Raven compared the botanical achievements of Cronquist to those of Linnæus.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span>&nbsp; Other scientists have called him the twentieth-century Asa Gray, considered by many to be the most important American botanist of the nineteenth century. Arthur Cronquist died on March 22, 1992, while studying specimens in the herbarium of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.<br /><br /><b>The Field Notes&nbsp;</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sbVyfe7XUlo/WnslYIgfNiI/AAAAAAAAAzk/e7DSiB4gVlwgaSmLr0FC1J8__rWX6j1aQCLcBGAs/s1600/nevadaarizonacal590cron_0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1588" data-original-width="992" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sbVyfe7XUlo/WnslYIgfNiI/AAAAAAAAAzk/e7DSiB4gVlwgaSmLr0FC1J8__rWX6j1aQCLcBGAs/s400/nevadaarizonacal590cron_0010.jpg" width="248" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Penstemon subulatus</i> Jones, Cronquist 10561, <br />from Nevada, Arizona, California, 1966, [numbers 10554-10649]. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2nQpjqo">http://s.si.edu/2nQpjqo</a>.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Cronquist's botanical field notebooks are typical of other botanical field notebooks and show how botanists document their field work and collect specimens. The image above shows one page in a field notebook created by Cronquist in 1966. At the top of the page, the number "10561" is visible. Botanists assign sequential numbers to the specimens that they collect throughout their careers. This number, when appended to the collector's name, e.g. Cronquist 10561, forms an identifier that is retained when the specimen is subsequently deposited in a herbarium. The descriptive information recorded in the field notebook, e.g. the date, location and elevation, is copied from the field notes to a specimen label. The dried, pressed specimen and the specimen label are then mounted on a large sheet of paper. The image below shows a herbarium sheet for the specimen described on this page in Cronquist's field notes and comes from the <a href="https://www.nybg.org/plant-research-and-conservation/tour/herbarium/">William and Lynda Steere Herbarium</a> at New York Botanical Garden.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/specimen_details.php?irn=99738"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1091" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_D7SqCtKvYc/WnslznDM42I/AAAAAAAAAzo/th_pxqh3l6ANYxZTCavngpjxQJ4sLn_SQCLcBGAs/s400/herbarium_specimen.jpg" width="272" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/specimen_details.php?irn=99738"><i>Penstemon subulatus</i> Jones, Herbarium Specimen</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The entire collection of field notes from all institutions participating in the BHL Field Notes Project is available in the BHL <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/collection/FieldNotesProject?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHLFNP&amp;utm_content=NYBG">here</a>. The Cronquist field notes contributed by NYBG are located <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?SearchTerm=&amp;lname=Cronquist&amp;col=87&amp;SearchCat=T&amp;return=ADV#/titles">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Written By:&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Susan Lynch&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Systems, Digitization and Web Librarian&nbsp;</b><br /><b>New York Botanical Garden&nbsp;</b><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">References:</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] Barkley, Theodore M. (1996). On the Contribution of Arthur Cronquist to Botanical Science at The New York Botanical Garden. <i>Brittonia</i>, 48(3), 372-375. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2807800">http://www.jstor.org/stable/2807800</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">[2] Lamont, Eric E. (1994). Arthur Cronquist (1919-1992). <i>Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club</i>, 58, 126-129. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/254875">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/254875</a>&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Further Reading:&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">University of Florida Herbarium. <i>Preparation of Plant Specimens for Deposit as Herbarium Vouchers</i>. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herbarium/voucher.htm">https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herbarium/voucher.htm&nbsp;</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The BHL Field Notes Project is funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).</span></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/02/dr-arthur-cronquist-and-his-botanical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adriana Marroquin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-8807170293493587059Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:30:00 +00002018-02-01T08:30:00.439-05:00Agriculturebhl userseducationJRASERoyal Agricultural Society of EnglandsourcesteachingVictorian agricultureTeaching with Historic Biodiversity Publications<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Can science increase agricultural productivity and support food security?<br /><br />The founders of the <a href="http://www.rase.org.uk/history/">Royal Agricultural Society of England</a> believed so. In 1838, a group of individuals with varied agricultural interests united to establish the Society with the purpose to promote the scientific advancement of English agriculture. Just two years later, in 1840, Queen Victoria granted the Society its Royal Charter, and the Society has played a significant role in agricultural progress in England ever since.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F9Qk9D8jaCA/WnDXoCA2EhI/AAAAAAAAHZM/bWovlprMH1gCo_OMhEtG4giOmgA8c2AQQCLcBGAs/s1600/45521667.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="978" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F9Qk9D8jaCA/WnDXoCA2EhI/AAAAAAAAHZM/bWovlprMH1gCo_OMhEtG4giOmgA8c2AQQCLcBGAs/s400/45521667.jpeg" width="243" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title page for Volume One of the <i>Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England</i>. 1839. Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2nqmWdu">http://s.si.edu/2nqmWdu</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/86012?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=Smithsonian%20Libraries">Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England</a></i> was used to communicate the Society's activities and disseminate information useful to those in agricultural fields. Since the publication of the first volume in 1839, the <i>Journal</i> has shared practical advice on soil cultivation; advances in agricultural implements, structures, and pest control; discoveries of new crop varieties; land management guidance; improvements in veterinary care related to livestock; and the results of agricultural experiments.<br /><br />The <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/86012?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=Smithsonian%20Libraries">Journal</a></i> is useful not only for research in agricultural science, but also other fields like environmental history. For Dr. Karen Sayer, Professor of Social and Cultural History at Leeds Trinity University, it is an invaluable resource.<br /><br />"The&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/86012?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=Smithsonian%20Libraries">Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England</a> </i>is a crucial source in my field, and I have easy access to it thanks to the Biodiversity Heritage Library."<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7lcJtchtJLY/WnDYEFD8uTI/AAAAAAAAHZQ/O6qNx-GWVZYgoYBWrkbyk9be6Ak6o77cACLcBGAs/s1600/karen%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1348" height="266" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7lcJtchtJLY/WnDYEFD8uTI/AAAAAAAAHZQ/O6qNx-GWVZYgoYBWrkbyk9be6Ak6o77cACLcBGAs/s400/karen%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Karen Sayer (left) with a student. Image Rights: Leeds Trinity University.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Sayer's research focuses on conceptualizations of rural communities, landscapes, and environments; human and animal relations in agriculture; and agricultural labor, landscapes, and structures in a social and cultural context. Thanks to BHL, which she discovered whilst searching for primary sources nearly ten years ago, Sayer has easy access to the references she needs to support her research.<br /><br />"BHL is an incredible resource," affirms Sayer. "It provides access to material that is otherwise hard to get and enables me to undertake detailed searches of these sources. I use it frequently, often weekly, especially when I’m teaching as it is also a great resource for my students."<br /><br />Sayer's favorite feature within the library is the ability to generate custom PDFs of specific pages, which allows her to download just those articles relevant to her research. This feature is also useful within the classroom, allowing her to share articles with her students for reading and commenting.<br /><br />Having digital access to publications such as the&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/86012?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=Smithsonian%20Libraries">Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England</a></i>&nbsp;also allows Sayer and her students to easily explore elements of agricultural and rural society and the dissemination of information at different cultural levels.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AevA0GIGbtM/WnDY7iy1inI/AAAAAAAAHZg/KV7rTRyS8Y4CQ7bGmFizL8UqBYTrn7jawCLcBGAs/s1600/9860907.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="954" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AevA0GIGbtM/WnDY7iy1inI/AAAAAAAAHZg/KV7rTRyS8Y4CQ7bGmFizL8UqBYTrn7jawCLcBGAs/s400/9860907.jpeg" width="237" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plans for cottages within the article "The Housing of the Agricultural Labourer." <i>Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England</i>. v. 75 (1914). Digitized by The New York Botanical Garden. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2BF3VsT">http://s.si.edu/2BF3VsT</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />"I like being able to pull up a whole text online for teaching, as I can project it on a Smart Board in the classroom and as a group we can scroll through it to explore ideas, juxtapositions, etc." explains Sayer. "My students can see that articles about French or German agriculture were being published alongside detailed explorations of wheat yields at agricultural research stations and reports on machinery exhibits at a county level. They can see how knowledge circulated at the time and the ways in which issues and ideas were debated."<br /><br />To further facilitate her research, Sayer would love to be able to search the full text of the collection and specific holdings to more easily identify articles related to specific topics and get a sense of the development of an idea or debate over time.<br /><br />We are thrilled to confirm that full text search is currently under development. Through increased research efficiency, full text search will enhance BHL's ability to inspire discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge. Stay tuned for more information on this new service.<br /><br />As Dr. Sayer's experience demonstrates, historic natural history publications provide a wealth of information beyond scientific data. These works also document important cultural information, providing insight into the emergence of ideas and the spread of knowledge through society and time. We are thrilled to know that BHL's collections support research across a wide array of disciplines.<br /><br /><b><i>By Grace Costantino</i></b><br /><b><i>Outreach and Communication Manager</i></b><br /><b><i>Biodiversity Heritage Library</i></b><br /><br /><b>Source</b><br /><br />Royal Agricultural Society of England. 2018. "History." Accessed January 30, 2018.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rase.org.uk/history/">http://www.rase.org.uk/history/</a>.</div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/02/teaching-with-historic-biodiversity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-6960506624724543363Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:49:00 +00002018-01-31T15:45:58.958-05:00BHL Website Unavailable 31 January 2018 <-- Issue Now Resolved!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">UPDATE: The BHL website is back online. Thank you for your patience!<br /><br />------------------------------------- <br />The BHL website is currently unavailable due to technical difficulties. We're working to resolve the problem as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.<br /><br />While the BHL website is down, you can <a href="https://archive.org/details/biodiversity">access our collection via Internet Archive</a>.&nbsp;</div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/01/bhl-website-unavailable-31-january-2018.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-3188457727763756754Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:30:00 +00002018-01-30T08:30:03.554-05:00BHLExpandingAccesscopyrightopen accesspermissions44 New In-Copyright Titles Coming to BHL!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;">During the final quarter of 2017 (October to December), BHL received permission for 44 new in-copyright titles, many as part of the <a href="http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Expanding+Access+to+Biodiversity+Literature">Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature</a> project.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--i-lrhT4-WA/Wl-Tt9SS4hI/AAAAAAAAHW4/_ASav3QDB1wtcSPw86ILdinG5XNbvPk3ACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-01-17%2Bat%2B1.19.18%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="1592" height="108" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--i-lrhT4-WA/Wl-Tt9SS4hI/AAAAAAAAHW4/_ASav3QDB1wtcSPw86ILdinG5XNbvPk3ACLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-01-17%2Bat%2B1.19.18%2BPM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BHL licenses content under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Below are the titles added in the fourth quarter, in the order permission was secured. As of the writing of this post, only one has been uploaded; the link is provided. Look for the rest as they're added to the collection; you can check the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/recent">recent additions</a>, or see all the permission titles available in BHL on the <a href="http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Permissions">permissions page</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sanbi.org/">South African National Biodiversity Institute</a><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Fauna and Flora of Transvaal</li><li>Kirstenbosch Gardening Series</li><li>Onze Tuinen</li></ul><br /><a href="http://noubirds.org/">Nebraska Ornithologists' Union</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Nebraska Bird Review&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://www.inlandbays.org/">Delaware Center for the Inland Bays</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Annual Reports&nbsp;</li><li>CCMP Addendum&nbsp;</li><li>Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP)&nbsp;</li><li>Inland Bays Journal&nbsp;</li><li>Scientific Publications &amp; Reports&nbsp;</li><li>State of the Bays&nbsp;</li><li>Three Year Strategic Plan (April 2015-April 2018)&nbsp;</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JQoWW_jUJkA/Wl-Vs5m8H_I/AAAAAAAAHXE/X8LbbCIm7OgpocDt_PKb1-Oki5Md00o0wCLcBGAs/s1600/Delaware%2BCenter%2Bfor%2Bthe%2BInland%2BBays%2BLogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="323" height="123" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JQoWW_jUJkA/Wl-Vs5m8H_I/AAAAAAAAHXE/X8LbbCIm7OgpocDt_PKb1-Oki5Md00o0wCLcBGAs/s320/Delaware%2BCenter%2Bfor%2Bthe%2BInland%2BBays%2BLogo.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.texasacademyofscience.org/">Texas Academy of Science</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/132191?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=In%20Copyright&amp;utm_content=Smithsonian%20Libraries">Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science</a> <i>(Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries)</i>&nbsp;</li><li>Proceedings and Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science&nbsp;</li><li>Texas Journal of Science&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://www.npsoregon.org/">Native Plant Society of Oregon</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Bulletin of the Native Plant Society of Oregon&nbsp;</li><li>Kalmiopsis&nbsp;</li><li>NPSO Occasional Papers&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://www.irises.org/">American Iris Society</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Irises (Bulletin of the American Iris Society)&nbsp;</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RLlg2NLRwsA/Wl-WDFo3C4I/AAAAAAAAHXI/I5ZM4l1MylYR3tCAWY7hIyet3LJQ3rvAgCLcBGAs/s1600/AISlogo2005170x200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="180" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RLlg2NLRwsA/Wl-WDFo3C4I/AAAAAAAAHXI/I5ZM4l1MylYR3tCAWY7hIyet3LJQ3rvAgCLcBGAs/s1600/AISlogo2005170x200.jpg" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.mhnv.cl/sitio/">Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaíso</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaíso&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://www.biodiversity.ku.edu/">KU Biodiversity Institute</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A Checklist of Linneana, 1735-1835 : in the University of Kansas Libraries&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="https://monativeplants.org/">Missouri Native Plant Society</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Missouriensis&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="https://www.scamit.org/">Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>SCAMIT Newsletter&nbsp;</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TA2tdwDdYNQ/Wl-WsV6l-6I/AAAAAAAAHXY/dRs2kebIfbEQORD-DYIk_VvQGwyi22SEwCLcBGAs/s1600/scamitlogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="838" height="306" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TA2tdwDdYNQ/Wl-WsV6l-6I/AAAAAAAAHXY/dRs2kebIfbEQORD-DYIk_VvQGwyi22SEwCLcBGAs/s320/scamitlogo.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />[<a href="http://www.internationalornithology.org/">IOU</a> Congress XVII] <a href="http://www.do-g.de/">Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Acta XVII Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://www.namyco.org/">North American Mycological Association</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Mycophile&nbsp;</li><li>McIlvainea&nbsp;</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-60Rnb9w9YKQ/Wl-XDI82oSI/AAAAAAAAHXc/LaJQeu3iOaMLwL_abyH2UPvGHiZnZ8h-ACLcBGAs/s1600/nama-logo-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="996" height="319" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-60Rnb9w9YKQ/Wl-XDI82oSI/AAAAAAAAHXc/LaJQeu3iOaMLwL_abyH2UPvGHiZnZ8h-ACLcBGAs/s320/nama-logo-2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://bsbi.org/">Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>BSBI Conference Reports&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://vacadsci.org/">Virginia Academy of Science</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Virginia Journal of Science, including Proceedings and Supplements&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://www.societanaturalistinapoli.it/">Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Bollettino della Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli&nbsp;</li></ul>[<a href="http://www.internationalornithology.org/">IOU</a> Congress XVIII] <a href="http://www.sevin.ru/">A.N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology &amp; Evolution</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Acta XVIII Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici, Moscow.&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://ntfieldnaturalists.org.au/">The Northern Territory Field Naturalists' Club</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Northern Territory Naturalist&nbsp;</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AW2DhWPmAsI/Wl-XofXqE-I/AAAAAAAAHXo/6Yvz8k6WUV4iF28cyJ8-mNOxaLh6zg9bwCLcBGAs/s1600/NT_field_naturalists_club_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="178" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AW2DhWPmAsI/Wl-XofXqE-I/AAAAAAAAHXo/6Yvz8k6WUV4iF28cyJ8-mNOxaLh6zg9bwCLcBGAs/s320/NT_field_naturalists_club_logo.png" width="222" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.magnt.net.au/">The Museum &amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory&nbsp;</li><li>The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Supplementary Series&nbsp;</li><li>Technical Reports of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory&nbsp;</li><li>Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences Monograph Series&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://nsis.chebucto.org/">Nova Scotia Institute of Science</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science&nbsp;</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D7kRLc5a5Ck/Wl-X_G5kVnI/AAAAAAAAHXs/N3MgkVz-qd0Aik6ZfqPd3g-4YEHUXgy5gCLcBGAs/s1600/homeHeaderLogoImage_en_US.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1589" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D7kRLc5a5Ck/Wl-X_G5kVnI/AAAAAAAAHXs/N3MgkVz-qd0Aik6ZfqPd3g-4YEHUXgy5gCLcBGAs/s320/homeHeaderLogoImage_en_US.png" width="317" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://michbotclub.org/">Michigan Botanical Club</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Michigan Botanist&nbsp;</li><li>The Great Lakes Botanist&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://peabody.yale.edu/">Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Field Notebooks: Leo Hickey (1940-2013)&nbsp;</li><li>Field Notebooks: Karl Waage (1915-1999)&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://leb.daba.lv/">Entomological Society of Latvia</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://virginianaturalhistorysociety.com/">Virginia Natural History Society</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Banisteria&nbsp;</li></ul><a href="http://sabs.us/">Southern Appalachian Botanical Society</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Castanea&nbsp;</li><li>Castanea: Occasional Papers&nbsp;</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kRq-4hUugdQ/Wl-YoHdoZMI/AAAAAAAAHX8/0wsK86h6c6IaTvz1jOno-6EFdlKZisnPwCLcBGAs/s1600/download%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kRq-4hUugdQ/Wl-YoHdoZMI/AAAAAAAAHX8/0wsK86h6c6IaTvz1jOno-6EFdlKZisnPwCLcBGAs/s1600/download%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/">The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University</a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Contributions of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University&nbsp;</li></ul>BHL thanks the many individuals and organizations who have so generously allowed their publications to be digitized and made available to the world under open access. If there's a book or journal you would like to see in BHL, <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/contact#/comments">please let us know</a>!<br /><br />And as always, don't forget to follow BHL on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BioDivLibrary/">Facebook</a>, Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/BioDivLibrary">@BioDivLibrary</a>), <a href="https://www.instagram.com/biodivlibrary/">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums">Flickr</a>, and <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/biodivlibrary/">Pinterest</a>.<br /><br /><b><i>By Elizabeth Meyer&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Library Project Assistant&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University</i></b></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/01/44-new-in-copyright-titles-coming-to-bhl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-6179886644646073436Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:30:00 +00002018-01-25T08:35:11.240-05:00atlas of living australiaAustraliabook of the monthbook of the weekinvasive speciesmuseums victoria"If it Lives, We Want It." Exploring the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria's Role in Australia’s Ecological History<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Acclimatisation Society of Victoria played a fascinating, yet devastating, role in Australia’s ecological history. Founded in 1861 and existing as an independent entity until 1872, the Society recorded its objectives and activities in annual reports. These reports have been digitized by Museums Victoria and are <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/141530?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">now available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EDOMD0Qobuc/WmiyPGc022I/AAAAAAAAHYg/Ok5uqUMoRjMaRbulaxvp97UfsL-PYfX1ACLcBGAs/s1600/55205811.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="957" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EDOMD0Qobuc/WmiyPGc022I/AAAAAAAAHYg/Ok5uqUMoRjMaRbulaxvp97UfsL-PYfX1ACLcBGAs/s400/55205811.jpeg" width="238" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The First Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria</i>, 1862. Contributed to BHL by Museums Victoria. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2BpCcfK">http://s.si.edu/2BpCcfK</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Acclimatisation Society was established in Victoria’s capital of Melbourne at a time when the city was experiencing great economic and population growth. Gold had been discovered in the colony in 1851 and over the next 10 years the population grew from 76,000 to 540,000. The wealthy and educated flocked to Melbourne, and the 1850s saw the establishment of The University of Melbourne, the National Museum of Victoria, the State Library of Victoria and many learned societies.<br /><br />The Acclimatisation Society was governed by the colony’s most eminent scientists who believed that Australia’s plants and animals were greatly inferior to those in Europe. The Society’s first president Edward Wilson argued that animals indigenous to Australia were practically useless, providing only 'a little sport and an occasional meal' (Gillbank, 1984).<br /><br />At the Society’s inaugural annual meeting, members were roused with talk of "wharves laden with the fleeces of the alpaca…, rivers teeming with all sorts of fish, forests abounding with every variety of game, and our tables groaning with all the delicacies which can be procured in the markets of London and Paris" (<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55205781?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 1862b</a>).<br /><br />There was great nostalgia amongst the colony for the "delightful reminders of [their] early home". Frederick McCoy, foundation Professor of Natural Science at The University of Melbourne and first director of the National Museum, proclaimed that “English thrushes, blackbirds, larks, starlings, and canaries” when “liberated” would enliven the "savage silence, or worse" with their "varied, touching, joyous, strains of Heaven-taught melody" (McCoy 1862).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V51mQYapnuo/Wmixy9bM1xI/AAAAAAAAHYc/3Lum-1dPHv0G0zL5Gud1FwEa4R_Nb_OlwCLcBGAs/s1600/55205756.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="1189" height="183" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V51mQYapnuo/Wmixy9bM1xI/AAAAAAAAHYc/3Lum-1dPHv0G0zL5Gud1FwEa4R_Nb_OlwCLcBGAs/s400/55205756.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birds liberated, from <i>The First Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria</i>, 1862. Contributed to BHL by Museums Victoria. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2DEkbzh">http://s.si.edu/2DEkbzh</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Society’s objectives were twofold: to introduce to Victoria and acclimatise "all innoxious animals, birds, fishes, insects, and vegetables, whether useful or ornamental" and to spread indigenous plants and animals from the colony to other parts of the world. President Wilson’s motto was "if it lives, we want it" (Tout-Smith, 2018).<br /><br />Theirs was an enormous undertaking: "to establish a system of co-operation and exchange, with persons residing at different points in the far quarters of the globe, and to arrange for the reception, multiplication, and distribution of birds and other animals, which must first of all bear a tedious sea voyage, and then receive the vigilant attention necessary to preserve them in a new climate" (<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55205802?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 1862a</a>).<br /><br />The <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/141530?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">Annual Reports</a> outline some significant successes (not all of which were their own doing): "the hare and rabbit have been introduced, and the latter so thoroughly acclimatised, that it swarms in hundreds in some localities" (<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55205762?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 1862c</a>).<br /><br />The <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/141530?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">Reports</a> not only provide a timeline of species released in Victoria; they also list the species sent elsewhere: echidnas to London, wombats to Paris, kangaroos to Mauritius and possums to New Zealand (an acclimatisation “success” that New Zealand may never forgive).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XJPaanc0pMs/Wmiy4HtHJnI/AAAAAAAAHYw/D-rBwn_v2J8JwVvVUdxaHx-Sq_XrkQA-wCLcBGAs/s1600/55205757.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="1187" height="285" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XJPaanc0pMs/Wmiy4HtHJnI/AAAAAAAAHYw/D-rBwn_v2J8JwVvVUdxaHx-Sq_XrkQA-wCLcBGAs/s400/55205757.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quadrupeds and birds sent away, from <i>The First Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria</i>, 1862. Contributed to BHL by Museums Victoria. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2n4u9kb">http://s.si.edu/2n4u9kb</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />However, most of their expensive acclimatisation experiments failed. In the early 1870s, The Acclimatisation Society began to focus on the importation of exotic animals for display purposes and in 1872 it was renamed The Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. Their Annual Reports (<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/59815?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">also available on BHL</a>) provide an equally fascinating history of what would become The Melbourne Zoo, but that’s another story.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-95qOAiW_eyU/WmizY0C5ItI/AAAAAAAAHY0/G7_Ftj94_asgyL168cCrDPd6jj7FHS3GQCLcBGAs/s1600/55205759.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="1195" height="191" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-95qOAiW_eyU/WmizY0C5ItI/AAAAAAAAHY0/G7_Ftj94_asgyL168cCrDPd6jj7FHS3GQCLcBGAs/s400/55205759.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crustacea, from <i>The First Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria</i>, 1862. Contributed to BHL by Museums Victoria. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2n90R33">http://s.si.edu/2n90R33</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Today Australia’s introduced species cause immense environmental and economic damage and have caused more extinctions of native Australian animals than any other factor. The Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, however, was certainly not to blame for all this devastation. While their lists of “liberated” animals include many of our most destructive invasives, they are generally only credited with the introduction of starlings, sparrows, sambar deer and European carp (Tout-Smith, 2003).<br /><br />The legacy they expected to leave behind is very different from the one presented here, as evidenced by McCoy’s statement in his anniversary address delivered at the Society’s first annual meeting:<br /><br /><i>…the good we do will live after us, and the work of our hands will thrive and prosper to our hearts’ content, and so become a lasting benefit to the millions of men who will in the fullness of time inhabit this land.</i> (<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55205770?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">McCoy, 1862</a>)<br /><br /><b><i>By: Nicole Kearney</i></b><br /><b><i>Project Coordinator, Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia</i></b><br /><b><i>Museums Victoria</i></b><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">References&nbsp;</h3><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 1862a. <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55205802?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria"><i>Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria</i>. No. 1</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 1862b, Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting, 24 November 1862, <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55205781?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria"><i>Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria</i>. No. 1</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 1862c. <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55205762?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria"><i>Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria</i>. No. 1</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Gillbank, L. 1984. The Origins of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria: Practical Science in the Wake of the Gold Rush. <i>Historical Records of Australian Science</i> 6, 359-374. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9860630359">https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9860630359</a>.&nbsp;</li><li>McCoy, 1862. Anniversary address delivered at the first annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. In <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55205770?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria"><i>Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria</i>. No. 1</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>&nbsp;Tout-Smith, D. 2003. Acclimatization Society of Victoria in Museums Victoria Collections. <a href="https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/1803">https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/1803</a>. Accessed 18 January 2018.</li></ul></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/01/if-it-lives-we-want-it-exploring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-2354868404078121230Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:30:00 +00002018-01-23T08:30:13.617-05:00Australiabhl aubhl australiamuseums victoriaBHL Australia - Now a Truly National Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/bhlau?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">BHL Australia</a> started 2017 with a dream – to digitize biodiversity literature from EVERY state and territory in Australia (for those readers not in Australia, we have six states and two territories).<br /><br />The Australian branch of the Biodiversity Heritage Library is led by <a href="https://museumsvictoria.com.au/">Museums Victoria</a>, in collaboration with Australia’s national biodiversity data aggregator, the <a href="http://www.ala.org.au/">Atlas of Living Australia</a>. The Australian project started in 2011 with just one library contributing.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bssjhNTx7qM/Wl5-RiH_zsI/AAAAAAAAHWM/GBouKIDNbdEl1u9O7rGqV--d0DTrc5QfQCLcBGAs/s1600/naturalistsmisc1Geor_0212.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="399" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bssjhNTx7qM/Wl5-RiH_zsI/AAAAAAAAHWM/GBouKIDNbdEl1u9O7rGqV--d0DTrc5QfQCLcBGAs/s400/naturalistsmisc1Geor_0212.jpg" width="237" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first scientific description of a kangaroo, from George Shaw’s <i>The Naturalist's Miscellany, or Coloured figures of natural objects</i>, volume 1, 1790, contributed to BHL by Museums Victoria. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2mMRKFG">http://s.si.edu/2mMRKFG</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />In May 2016, BHL Australia <a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2016/05/biodiversity-heritage-library-adds-bhl.html?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">signed on as a full BHL member</a>. By this time, we had grown to five contributing organizations from four states: <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/MV?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">Museums Victoria</a> and the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/RBGV?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=RBG%20Victoria">Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria</a> (in Victoria), the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/QM?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Queensland%20Museum">Queensland Museum</a> (in Queensland), the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/SAM?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=South%20Australian%20Museum">South Australian Museum</a> (in South Australia) and the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/AM?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Australian%20Museum">Australian Museum</a> (in New South Wales).<br /><br />By the end of 2016, the number of Australian contributors had doubled. We had welcomed five new BHL contributors, including the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/WAM?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Western%20Australian%20Museum">Western Australian Museum</a> and the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/RSWA?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Royal%20Society%20Western%20Au">Royal Society of Western Australia</a> (from Australia’s largest state of Western Australia) and <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/GeoscienceAustraliaNotebooks?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Geoscience%20Australia">Geoscience Australia</a> (from the Australian Capital Territory).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W7TeFDC1wHE/Wl5_IZWZ3hI/AAAAAAAAHWY/uJQdm4JWEywDaxKgt0zSTDtQSHn8wam1wCLcBGAs/s1600/WA%2BRecords%2BGA%2Bdiary%2Bpage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1012" height="296" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W7TeFDC1wHE/Wl5_IZWZ3hI/AAAAAAAAHWY/uJQdm4JWEywDaxKgt0zSTDtQSHn8wam1wCLcBGAs/s400/WA%2BRecords%2BGA%2Bdiary%2Bpage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: <i>Records of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery</i>, volume 1 number 1, 1910, contributed to BHL by the Western Australian Museum. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2EL3oYw">http://s.si.edu/2EL3oYw</a>. Right: Page from Richard Gurth Dodson's 1971 Antarctic geological field notebook contributed to BHL by Geoscience Australia. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2B8EPCo">http://s.si.edu/2B8EPCo</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />In 2017 we purchased a new scanner and uploaded a record number of pages onto BHL: 48,863 (compared to 27,647 in 2016). We continued to attract new contributors and, by the middle of the year, there were 15 Australian organizations contributing to BHL. However, the Northern Territory and Tasmania were still not represented.<br /><br />In October 2017, BHL Australia’s Manger Ely Wallis and Coordinator Nicole Kearney spoke about BHL at the combined annual meeting of the Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC) and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH).<br /><br />We are thrilled to announce that, as a direct result of this meeting, we have three new Australian contributors: the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/MAGNT?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=MAGNT">Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory</a>, the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/NTFNC?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=NTFieldNaturalistsClub">Northern Territory Field Naturalists’ Club</a> and Tasmania’s <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/QVMAG?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=QVMAG">Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery</a>.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cE4qcehMFcU/Wl5_4myeLkI/AAAAAAAAHWg/m6UakxYzQYMHeAVA0pVIkZilHFYIqPAKwCLcBGAs/s1600/QVMAG%2BNT%2BNaturalist%2Bcombined%2Bimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1044" height="281" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cE4qcehMFcU/Wl5_4myeLkI/AAAAAAAAHWg/m6UakxYzQYMHeAVA0pVIkZilHFYIqPAKwCLcBGAs/s400/QVMAG%2BNT%2BNaturalist%2Bcombined%2Bimage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: <i>Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston</i>, volume 1, 1942, contributed to BHL by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2DG0Fjs">http://s.si.edu/2DG0Fjs</a>. Right: <i>Northern Territory Naturalist</i>, volume 1 number 1, 1978, contributed to BHL by the Northern Territory Field Naturalists’ Club. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2mFQKCm">http://s.si.edu/2mFQKCm</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />As we’d dreamed, BHL Australia will be spending 2018 digitizing the biodiversity heritage of every state and territory in Australia – from the library collections of 20 Australian organizations (thus far).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qjLBSDh97lk/Wl6AZw9Bu6I/AAAAAAAAHWo/tnc5TOt26KgWT-FbQ5q6aFDS149MveG5ACLcBGAs/s1600/BHL%2BAu%2Bconributor%2Bmap%2B2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="1490" height="226" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qjLBSDh97lk/Wl6AZw9Bu6I/AAAAAAAAHWo/tnc5TOt26KgWT-FbQ5q6aFDS149MveG5ACLcBGAs/s400/BHL%2BAu%2Bconributor%2Bmap%2B2018.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />To keep up with <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/bhlau?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Program%20Update&amp;utm_content=Museums%20Victoria">BHL Australia</a>’s contributions and activities, follow us on twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/bhl_au">@bhl_au</a>.<br /><br /><i>The BHL Australia operation would not be possible without the work of our wonderful volunteers: Bob Griffith, Chris Healey, Grace Blake, Heidi Griffith, John Hurley, Sue Halliwell, Tiziana Tizian and Virak Seng. In November 2017, we welcomed seven new volunteers to our BHL Au family: David Tink, Ian Farnsworth, Liz Murray, Ruth Dickinson, Sharon Lewin, Susan Roderick and Wenping Zhang. In December 2017 we uploaded 7,745 pages onto BHL: this was our highest upload month ever. 7,745 cheers for our volunteers! </i><br /><i><b><br /></b></i><b><i>Post By:</i></b><br /><b><i>Nicole Kearney</i></b><br /><b><i>Project Coordinator, BHL Australia</i></b><br /><b><i>Museums Victoria</i></b></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/01/bhl-australia-now-truly-national-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-847068910047599657Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:30:00 +00002018-01-18T08:30:46.866-05:00BHLExpandingAccessbotanymedical botanyplantsNew Medical Botany Titles in BHL Thanks to The New York Academy of Medicine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The New York Academy of Medicine Library has contributed <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/NYAM?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">nine digitized titles (11 volumes)</a> on medical botany to the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as part of the <a href="http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Expanding+Access+to+Biodiversity+Literature"><i>Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature</i> project</a>. It is very exciting to share some of the Academy Library’s botanical resources with the wider public.<br /><br />The Academy is home to one of the most significant historical libraries in medicine and public health in the world, safeguarding the heritage of medicine to inform the future of health. The Library’s collections contain many of the formative texts of medicine and allied fields from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, as well as more recent titles. It is equally renowned for its extensive journal collection comprising medical serials from around the world, and for significant holdings in manuscripts, archives and ephemera, all of which are of great historical interest.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PsuonuFh37c/Wl5fdQ8GqeI/AAAAAAAAHVo/6wHJIpK6Q2UsWKV3Nyd5APGcsIUMtSUyQCLcBGAs/s1600/NYAM_RBR_106-1200x896.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1200" height="297" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PsuonuFh37c/Wl5fdQ8GqeI/AAAAAAAAHVo/6wHJIpK6Q2UsWKV3Nyd5APGcsIUMtSUyQCLcBGAs/s400/NYAM_RBR_106-1200x896.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The New York Academy of Medicine Library’s Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Reading Room.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />While the Library’s collections include a large number of printed botanical books dating back to the beginning of the sixteenth century, for this project we were interested in identifying resources that could be sent to the Internet Archive for external digitization, which meant that we concentrated on our holdings from the second half of the 19th century forward through 1922.<br /><br />After generating lists from our online catalog, we checked to see if any of these resources had already been digitized by the BHL, Internet Archive, or HathiTrust. For this process, we developed a set of simple guidelines:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Resources not available via BHL, Internet Archive or HathiTrust remained on the list.&nbsp;</li><li>Resources already available via the BHL were eliminated from the list.&nbsp;</li><li>Resources already available via the Internet Archive were eliminated from the list because BHL harvests content from the Internet Archive, so there would be no need for us to digitize that content.&nbsp;</li><li>Resources already available via HathiTrust could still potentially be digitized for access via the BHL based on whether our copy provides additional information for the public once digitized. For example, the <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54132176?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Indian Medicinal Plants</a></i> (Kīrtikara &amp; Basu, 1918) has been partially digitized by HathiTrust, but the volume with the images was missing. As such, it became important for us to digitize so that it would be fully available.&nbsp;</li></ul><br />We went through multiple lists and rounds of de-duplication to narrow down our potential submission. Once we finalized the list, Scott Devine, Head of Preservation, conducted a conservation assessment to determine which resources could be sent out for digitization and which were so fragile that they could only be digitized in house. We separated these into two lists. The first list was sent to the Internet Archive for digitization and is our contribution to BHL. The second list will be a project for our new digital lab, and we hope to make them available at a future date.<br /><i><br /></i><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54132176?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Indian medicinal plants</a></i> (Kīrtikara &amp; Basu, 1918) stood out as a resource to digitize and share widely. It documents the medicinal plants found in India. The authors describe a need to provide a text that reproduces illustrations of Indian medicinal plants from other works since there were few prior to this publication. Dr. W. Roxburgh’s text, reprinted in 1874, was used as a reference throughout.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MngFcXeyzcg/Wl5ftnrEycI/AAAAAAAAHVs/fndHi3k_5QQXbzdbkE-fRv4MhYMmvOu8QCLcBGAs/s1600/indianmedicinalp00krti_0270.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="471" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MngFcXeyzcg/Wl5ftnrEycI/AAAAAAAAHVs/fndHi3k_5QQXbzdbkE-fRv4MhYMmvOu8QCLcBGAs/s400/indianmedicinalp00krti_0270.jpg" width="277" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kīrtikara, Kānhobā Raṇachoḍadāsa and Baman Das Basu. <i>Indian medicinal plants</i>. 2nd Ed. (1918). Plate #256, showing <i>Leea sambucina</i>. Digitized by The New York Academy of Medicine. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2DnszmA">http://s.si.edu/2DnszmA</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Although <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54132176?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Indian medicinal plants</a></i> did not focus on the use of plants in the development of drugs, this theme can be seen throughout the resources submitted to the BHL. Each author grapples with the role of plants in the creation and production of drugs.<br /><br />In <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233422?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">A course in botany and pharmacognosy</a></i> (1902), Henry Kraemer, Professor of Botany and Pharmacognosy, defines pharmacognosy as the "study of drugs of vegetable origins." Kraemer devotes the first part of his text to plant morphology and the second part to pharmacognosy. In addition, he provides illustrations to aid in the study of both parts so that students can connect the descriptions throughout the text to the visual representations.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jbqrgIQYKSk/Wl5ghpEd2eI/AAAAAAAAHV4/LajiH6yzIRQ02eqKV9ZC9_9dkFvWqazlACLcBGAs/s1600/courseinbotanyph00krae_0331.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="427" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jbqrgIQYKSk/Wl5ghpEd2eI/AAAAAAAAHV4/LajiH6yzIRQ02eqKV9ZC9_9dkFvWqazlACLcBGAs/s400/courseinbotanyph00krae_0331.jpg" width="271" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kraemer, Henry. <i>A course in botany and pharmacognosy</i>. 1902. Plate #1, showing organized cell-contents. Digitized by The New York Academy of Medicine. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2FJqAaI">http://s.si.edu/2FJqAaI</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Youngken's <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233412?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM"><i>Pharmaceutical botany</i>, 2nd edition</a> (1918) was expanded to take advantage of the growing area of botany, including a section on drug-yielding plants. The text focuses on the morphology and taxonomy of plants used in drug development.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hAbIiPM5DOs/Wl5g-ykmRxI/AAAAAAAAHV8/sNlDpPUmSYE1gyi3CEoUbXTllH9rm4YEwCLcBGAs/s1600/pharmaceuticalbo00youn_0_0143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="407" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hAbIiPM5DOs/Wl5g-ykmRxI/AAAAAAAAHV8/sNlDpPUmSYE1gyi3CEoUbXTllH9rm4YEwCLcBGAs/s400/pharmaceuticalbo00youn_0_0143.jpg" width="261" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Youngken, Heber W. (Heber Wilkinson). <i>Pharmaceutical botany</i>. 1918. Fig 57, showing leaf bases, species and compound leaves. Digitized by The New York Academy of Medicine. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2mMr7Ri">http://s.si.edu/2mMr7Ri</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />In <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233429?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Pharmacal plants and their culture</a></i> (1912), Schneider argues that the majority of imported plants used in medicine could already be available in the United States. He focuses on California and outlines what can be cultivated and grown in the state. Schneider provides a list of uses and common names.<br /><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233419?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM"><br /></a><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233419?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Gattinger's and Allison's report</a> (1894) is an observational inventory of Tennessee's plants and their descriptions based on a similar project conducted by North Carolina. Published by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, the report emphasizes the importance of documenting and understanding the native plants of Tennessee and how they can help increase usage and revenue.<br /><br />Overall, readers of this collection can begin to understand the role of plants in the creation, development and economic viability of drugs. Many of the resources provide some form of inventory, index or list that documents the plants and associated drugs.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/NYAM?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">All titles</a> submitted by the Academy Library to BHL:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Baillon’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233418?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Programme du cours d’histoire naturelle médicale professé à la Faculté de médecine de Paris. 3ème partie, Etude spéciale des plantes employées en médecine</a></i> (1878)&nbsp;</li><li>Gattinger &amp; Allison’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233419?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">The medicinal plants of Tennessee : exhibiting their commercial value : with an analytical key, descriptions in aid of their recognition, and notes relating to their distribution, time and mode of collection, and preparation for the drug market</a></i> (1894)&nbsp;</li><li>Kīrtikara &amp; Basu’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54132176?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Indian medicinal plants</a></i> / (Vol. 2nd ed. (1918) (1918)&nbsp;</li><li>Kraemer’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233422?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">A course in botany and pharmacognosy</a></i> (1902)&nbsp;</li><li>Meyer’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233416?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Arzneipflanzenkultur und Kräuterhandel : rationelle Züchtung, Behandlung und Verwertung der in Deutschland zu ziehenden Arznei- und Gewürzpflanzen ; eine Anleitung für Apotheker, Landwirte und Gärtner</a></i> (1911)&nbsp;</li><li>Moquin-Tandon’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233411?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Éléments de botanique médicale : contenant la description des végétaux utiles à la médecine et des espèces nuisibles à l’homme, vénéneuses ou parasites, précédée de considérations sur l’organisation et la classification des végétaux</a></i> / (2. éd.) (1866)&nbsp;</li><li>Schneider &amp; California. State Board of Forestry’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233429?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Pharmacal plants and their culture</a></i> (1912)&nbsp;</li><li>Velásquez &amp; Maldonado’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/234449?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Contribución al estudio de la materia médica peruana</a></i> (1920)&nbsp;</li><li>Youngken’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/233412?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=NYAM">Pharmaceutical botany</a></i> / (2d ed., and enl., enl.with 195 illustrations) (1918)</li></ul><div>The BHL Expanding Access project is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>By:</i></b></div><b>Robin Naughton, PhD<i>&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Head of Digital, The New York Academy of Medicine&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b>Arlene Shaner, MA, MLS&nbsp;</b><br /><b><i>Historical Collections Librarian, The New York Academy of Medicine</i></b><br /><div><br /></div></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/01/new-medical-botany-titles-in-bhl-thanks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-3460260100988255485Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:30:00 +00002018-01-17T08:30:51.537-05:00#BHLNDSRgrantsIMLSNDSRCapstone event for BHL NDSR program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">On January 4, 2018, in the midst of a memorable storm in the Northeastern US, approximately 30 intrepid travelers met to celebrate the successful completion of the <a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/02/introducing-ndsr-at-bhl-cohort-and-blog.html">BHL National Digital Stewardship Residencies</a> developed for the IMLS, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant submission: <i><a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2016/06/bhl-receives-funding-to-host-national.html">Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations in Digital Libraries in Partnership with NDSR Learners</a></i>.&nbsp; The program plan included hiring five geographically-distributed residents, all graduates of LIS or related master's programs, to work on collaborative projects to improve tools, curation, and content stewardship for BHL. This work supported BHL development plans for the next generation portal&nbsp;for the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature.<br />&nbsp; <br />The Capstone event was beautifully hosted by the Smithsonian Libraries at the Natural History Museum in the room where the first DC planning meeting for BHL occurred. Martin Kalfatovic (BHL Program Director and Associate Director, Digital Program and Initiatives for the Smithsonian Libraries) and Dr. Nancy Gwinn (Director of the Smithsonian Libraries) welcomed the group.&nbsp; Robin Dale (Deputy Director for Library Services at IMLS) described the NDSR program within the context of the IMLS goals for a national digital platform, mentoring digital library leaders and developing communities of practice.&nbsp; Dr. Scott Miller (Deputy Undersecretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Support at the Smithsonian Institution) congratulated BHL on its accomplishments in making biodiversity literature accessible but also suggested further work on linking content, mobile access and establishing standards.<br /><br />Constance Rinaldo (Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University and Chair of the BHL Members' Council) gave an overview of the grant and process emphasizing the importance of ensuring the development of a strong cohort with leadership capacity among the geographically dispersed residents. Leora Siegel (Senior Director, Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden and a BHL NDSR Mentor) reflected on the past year and how rewarding it was to be a mentor to a recent graduate, wrestle with how to push the project forward, and connect with colleagues mentoring related projects with residents across the United States.&nbsp; Mentors wished for more time, more opportunities to meet face to face with all participants and more professional meeting opportunities.<br /><br />Katie Mika (BHL NDSR Resident at the Ernst Mayr Library) reflected on being a resident, struggling with the contrary thrusts of independence yet adherence to a partially defined project in a tight time frame.&nbsp; Residents wished for more time, more structure and an in-depth technical introduction to BHL, yet all were successful in their work and learned more than they expected.<br /><br />Trevor Owens (Head of Digital Content Management in Library Services at the Library of Congress) wrapped up the event with a keynote that focused on the push towards a National Digital Platform for digital data and his thoughts on digital preservation.<br /><br />Although the final grant report looms large for the mentors, the Capstone event was an engaging send-off for the residents and we all look forward to following their future accomplishments.<br /><table><tbody><tr><td><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D7AjJm0fBzc/Wlkc_7Z4A1I/AAAAAAAAENI/jT-EFZo61OI8FlfaeaZDHU-4HHX4VTVggCLcBGAs/s1600/Miller2018-01-04%2B14.20.36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D7AjJm0fBzc/Wlkc_7Z4A1I/AAAAAAAAENI/jT-EFZo61OI8FlfaeaZDHU-4HHX4VTVggCLcBGAs/s200/Miller2018-01-04%2B14.20.36.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scott Miller presenting the <br />opening keynote</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LWyZD-ODHZk/WlkdJGGc0JI/AAAAAAAAENM/l-i1JSZoqM81CzojQX0j2I6zgIU9YjnYgCLcBGAs/s1600/Mika2018-01-04%2B15.09.43.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LWyZD-ODHZk/WlkdJGGc0JI/AAAAAAAAENM/l-i1JSZoqM81CzojQX0j2I6zgIU9YjnYgCLcBGAs/s200/Mika2018-01-04%2B15.09.43.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katie Mika presenting the<br />BHL NDSR Resident Reflection</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLZcpWR6pJI/WlkdNhNFLSI/AAAAAAAAENQ/7tCRHJwNxIA-156iQswSxC2R9BrS1_9vACLcBGAs/s1600/Owens2018-01-04%2B15.31.41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLZcpWR6pJI/WlkdNhNFLSI/AAAAAAAAENQ/7tCRHJwNxIA-156iQswSxC2R9BrS1_9vACLcBGAs/s200/Owens2018-01-04%2B15.31.41.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trevor Owens presenting the<br />closing keynote</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br />For specific information about the work of the residents, <a href="https://ndsrbhl.wordpress.com/">see their blog</a><br />and <a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/search/label/%23BHLNDSR">related BHL blog posts</a>.<br /><br /><b>BHL NDSR Residents and Mentors</b><br /><b>Alicia Esquivel</b>,&nbsp;Resident at Chicago Botanic Garden, focused on Content Analysis.<br /><b>Leora Siegel</b>, Senior Director, Lenhardt Library<br /><br /><b>Marissa Kings, </b>Resident at Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, focused on Digital Library Best Practices.<br /><b>Richard Hulser</b>, Chief Librarian<br /><br /><b>Pamela McClanahan</b>,&nbsp;Resident at Smithsonian Libraries, focused on User Needs and Usability.<br /><b>Carolyn Sheffield</b>, BHL Program Manager<br /><br /><b>Katie Mika</b>, Resident at Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, focused on Crowdsourced Data Corrections and Enhancements.<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H3F5yiZ-i54/WlkkJ544hnI/AAAAAAAAt08/T_3P0T6fV640qJ17dpzmt-mk20w4aWhpQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/bhlbootcamppic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H3F5yiZ-i54/WlkkJ544hnI/AAAAAAAAt08/T_3P0T6fV640qJ17dpzmt-mk20w4aWhpQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/bhlbootcamppic.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>Constance Rinaldo</b>, Librarian, Ernst Mayr Library<br />and Program Director, BHL-NDSR Program<br /><b>Joseph DeVeer</b>, Project Manager and Museum Liaison, Ernst Mayr Library<br /><br /><b>Ariadne Rehbein</b>, Resident at Missouri Botanical Garden, focused on Enhancing Image Discovery.<br /><b>Doug Holland</b>, Library Director, Peter H. Raven Library<br /><b>Trish Rose-Sandler</b>, Project Manager, Center for Biodiversity Informatics<br /><div><br /></div>Thank you to the speakers, external and internal to the grant project, for providing us with encouragement, support and reflections that we can take forward in our day to day work.&nbsp; I want to especially thank Carolyn Sheffield (BHL Program Manager and Mentor to the Smithsonian Libraries resident) for managing the logistics of the Capstone event and ensuring its excellence.<br /><br /><b><i>By Constance Rinaldo</i></b><br /><b><i>Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University</i></b><br /><b><i>Chair, BHL Members' Council</i></b><br /><div><br /></div></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/01/capstone-event-for-bhl-ndsr-program.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Biodiversity Heritage Library)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-3431286268300087083Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:30:00 +00002018-01-11T08:30:07.405-05:00anthropologybhl usersdarwinevolutionfossilspaleoanthropologyExamining the History of Paleoanthropology Using BHL <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In the middle of the nineteenth century, the scientific community was engrossed in discussions about evolution and the origin of species. The publication of Darwin's <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/135954?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=Harvard%20Botany">On the Origin of Species</a></i> in 1859 fueled extensive scientific debate and prompted further questions regarding human evolution. A key figure in these debates was Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist and comparative anatomist.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ho7ycQs_IZI/WicTvAPuGII/AAAAAAAAHQ8/pO-hDLEDU8Qxxc945MmgFX4dQ-MCTk4RwCLcBGAs/s1600/Huxley1863yo75X_0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="944" height="261" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ho7ycQs_IZI/WicTvAPuGII/AAAAAAAAHQ8/pO-hDLEDU8Qxxc945MmgFX4dQ-MCTk4RwCLcBGAs/s400/Huxley1863yo75X_0006.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frontispiece. Huxley, Thomas Henry. <i>Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature</i>. 1863. Digitized by Cambridge University Library as part of Charles Darwin's Library. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2inaol1">http://s.si.edu/2inaol1</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />A close friend of Charles Darwin and a staunch public supporter of the theory of natural selection, Huxley used his expertise in embryology, paleontology and comparative anatomy to demonstrate an evolutionary relationship between humans and apes. In a series of public lectures between 1860-62, he presented research on anatomical similarities between humans and apes and discussed hominin fossil discoveries, including a skullcap from the first recognized Neanderthal Man which was unearthed in Germany in 1856.<br /><br />These oral discourses were collected into a single volume and published in 1863 as <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107071?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=Cambridge%20University">Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature</a>.</i><br /><i><br /></i> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CLh2QziayJE/WicUSpnepiI/AAAAAAAAHRE/dsCig69KamA3OwvSn4OEtAZeA_TRnMXVwCLcBGAs/s1600/Huxley1863yo75X_0149.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="601" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CLh2QziayJE/WicUSpnepiI/AAAAAAAAHRE/dsCig69KamA3OwvSn4OEtAZeA_TRnMXVwCLcBGAs/s400/Huxley1863yo75X_0149.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huxley, Thomas Henry. <i>Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature</i>. 1863. Digitized by Cambridge University Library as part of Charles Darwin's Library. Page 139. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2B12Tvx">http://s.si.edu/2B12Tvx</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><i><br /></i>Paige Madison, a PhD candidate studying the history of paleoanthropology at Arizona State University, identifies this publication as a vital reference for her doctoral research.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqOuhME7LmI/WicU-B8x6vI/AAAAAAAAHRM/H8PnHEfsRfUm8DFOhzSRsXlYTBZH4TacgCLcBGAs/s1600/DSC01462.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1190" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqOuhME7LmI/WicU-B8x6vI/AAAAAAAAHRM/H8PnHEfsRfUm8DFOhzSRsXlYTBZH4TacgCLcBGAs/s400/DSC01462.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paige Madison, PhD candidate at Arizona State University. Photo Credit: Alex Reynes.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />"This was one of the pioneering works in the history of paleoanthropology," explains Madison. "Huxley’s argumentative strategy is wonderful. At a time when it was hard to get away from preconceived notions about human evolution, Huxley asks his readers to take a step back and imagine they were visitors from Saturn, 'happily free from all personal interest.' He lays out the facts concerning humans' similarities to other apes and then asks the impartial scientific Saturnians, 'Is Man so different from any of these Apes?'"<br /><br />For her dissertation, Madison is examining a series of case studies on the history of paleoanthropology spanning well over a century. This research requires examination of numerous historic publications, such as Huxley's <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107071?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=Cambridge%20University">Man's Place in Nature</a></i>. Thanks to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, she has easy access to the necessary references.<br /><br />"BHL has been central to my research," asserts Madison. "It allows me to quickly access a wealth of material online, so I can spend my time researching rather than running back and forth to the University library."<br /><br />After first being introduced to BHL by fellow graduate students five years ago, Madison now uses the library almost weekly to access the research of key scientists in her field. By downloading entire PDFs of relevant publications or selecting specific pages using BHL's custom PDF generator, she is able to guarantee easy offline access to important references. She also uses the library to gather images, which she finds useful both for her research and when creating presentations.<br /><br />"The images I can download from BHL are high quality," says Madison. "I know exactly where they came from and how they were used to illuminate a particular aspect of a scientist’s overall argument."<br /><br />While she finds BHL's collections invaluable, Madison notes that the consolidation of duplicate author names would greatly improve the user experience. As a request voiced by many users, name authority control is indeed high on BHL's list of development priorities.<br /><br />For Madison, exploring the history of hominin fossils and our understanding of their place in the evolution&nbsp;of <i>Homo sapiens</i> is a passion that is greatly facilitated by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. We are proud to know that BHL's open access collection is helping to illuminate the history of science to accelerate research today and empower future discoveries.<br /><br />You can follow Paige Madison's research on Twitter at&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/fossilhistory">@FossilHistory</a>.<br /><br /><b><i>By Grace Costantino&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Outreach and Communication Manager&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Biodiversity Heritage Library&nbsp;</i></b><br /><br /><b>Reference</b><br /><br />Hauserman, Samantha. 2013. "Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)." The Embryo Project Encyclopedia, November 26. Accessed December 5, 2017.&nbsp;<a href="https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/thomas-henry-huxley-1825-1895">https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/thomas-henry-huxley-1825-1895</a>.<br /><br />______________________________________<br /><br /><i>This post may contain the personal opinions of BHL users or affiliated staff and does not necessarily represent the official Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) position on these matters.</i></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/01/examining-history-of-paleoanthropology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-7134775908877386350Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +00002018-01-04T08:00:00.285-05:00#BHLFNPBHL field notes projectCharles WrightChen Huanyong Mary Strong ClemensChun WoonYoungHarvard Botany LibrariesRae Baldwin KennedyreferenceWilliam G. FarlowDigitized Field Notes Yield Rapid Reference Response!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Harvard Botany Libraries have been fortunate to benefit from several field notes digitization projects in recent years. Materials have been selected based on condition, demand, and/or the theme of the funded project. The current <a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/01/introducing-bhl-field-notes-project.html">CLIR-funded BHL Field Notes Project</a> has enabled us to nearly complete the capture of field notes and plant lists associated with the herbaria collections. The most interesting and immediate benefit of the project is our ability to point users to the files that are available both in the Biodiversity Heritage Library and HOLLIS, Harvard’s online catalog.<br /><br />Recent reference questions that have arrived in my inbox that would have once required searching finding aids or files, and having researchers come to review materials, can now be answered by sending links. A former curatorial staff member wrote in the fall to say that he was on his way to Bermuda to collect specimens. He asked if I could send him copies of the field notes compiled by Harvard mycologist William G. Farlow during his trips there in 1881 and 1900. The <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/226445?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHLFNP&amp;utm_content=Harvard%20Botany">notes</a> were already available in the BHL Field Notes collection so I dashed off an email with those links and received a big “thank you” only minutes later! <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ThAMg1x9dI8/WkOzVnD73CI/AAAAAAAAAwg/EVzIZ-Vy-mMo77DbFKtEMCts6L3-Hhy4gCLcBGAs/s1600/Bermuda%2BPlants%2B1.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1516" data-original-width="1574" height="308" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ThAMg1x9dI8/WkOzVnD73CI/AAAAAAAAAwg/EVzIZ-Vy-mMo77DbFKtEMCts6L3-Hhy4gCLcBGAs/s320/Bermuda%2BPlants%2B1.tiff" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cIB5GlMzniw/WkOzkshBmII/AAAAAAAAAwk/yQ3PPbsb1xoY2cddwBJPk1KtmXbsY1gawCLcBGAs/s1600/bermudaplantsap00farla_0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1019" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cIB5GlMzniw/WkOzkshBmII/AAAAAAAAAwk/yQ3PPbsb1xoY2cddwBJPk1KtmXbsY1gawCLcBGAs/s320/bermudaplantsap00farla_0003.jpg" width="203" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span itemprop="name"><em>Bermuda plants, approximately 1881-1900</em>. v.2 (1881)</span><br /><span itemprop="name"><a href="http://s.si.edu/2qaW4D6">https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53509230</a>. Digitized by Harvard University Botany Libraries.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Another recent request came from a botanist stationed at the Horticulture Center, South China Botanical Garden, in Guangzhou, China. He was interested in anything in the archives related to Chun WoonYoung [Chen Huanyong] who collaborated with Arnold Arboretum botanists in the 1920s. While most of those materials reside in the archives at the Arnold Arboretum, I was fairly sure that we had his collecting records. Digital Projects Librarian Diane Rielinger supplied the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/135332?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHLFNP&amp;utm_content=Harvard%20Botany">BHL link</a> so I forwarded it to the botanist in Guangzhou. <br /><br />The most recent and surprising use of the field notes came as a referral from a colleague at the Botanical Research Institute in Fort Worth Texas. He is working with curators at the Amon Carter Art Museum of American Art on an exhibit planned for 2020. The museum has commissioned an artist to retrace the routes of 19th century naturalists throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth area and reimagine their experiences. They are particularly interested in Charles Wright so we sent links to his correspondence and field notes and the curators visited the Botany Libraries in December to see the material and to view collecting tools and artifacts in the archives. They plan to return with the artist next year to continue their research. Visits from artists are not unusual, but applying field notes to an art project is a first for us. The Wright field notes, digitized as part of a previous project, will also be deposited in BHL in the near future. <br /><br />Keiko Nishimoto, the Botany Libraries’ former Collection Services Archivist, prepared a small exhibit on the CLIR field notes project to promote the project to herbaria staff and visitors. The first case explained the importance of field notes, showed examples of the records in the archives, and explained why they were being digitized. The second case featured the works of women botanists Mary Strong Clemens (1873-1968), who collected in New Guinea, northern Borneo, and Sulawesi, and Rae Baldwin Kennedy (1879-1952) who worked in Bermuda. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7hMZpcM80Io/WkOzotcguyI/AAAAAAAAAws/UP2G9naPuFoZ7AW690EkAatzLimGJGRfgCLcBGAs/s1600/Botany%2Blibrary%2B1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="470" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7hMZpcM80Io/WkOzotcguyI/AAAAAAAAAws/UP2G9naPuFoZ7AW690EkAatzLimGJGRfgCLcBGAs/s320/Botany%2Blibrary%2B1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2J8bU98tCgM/WkOzonQP8cI/AAAAAAAAAwo/IxcD7kIqlkgD7DMImKVqy1r2Dhl4yVz6gCLcBGAs/s1600/Botany%2Blibrary%2B2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="483" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2J8bU98tCgM/WkOzonQP8cI/AAAAAAAAAwo/IxcD7kIqlkgD7DMImKVqy1r2Dhl4yVz6gCLcBGAs/s320/Botany%2Blibrary%2B2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Earlier grants allowed us to target particular collectors and expeditions, but the CLIR funds gave us the opportunity to open the document boxes and scan the bulk of the collection. Cataloging and access have been enhanced as has our knowledge of the entire collection. We look forward to sharing these resources virtually and to hosting users with both traditional and reimagined ways of using them.<br /><br /><b>Written by:&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Judy Warnement&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Librarian of Harvard University Botany Libraries</b><br /><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">The BHL Field Notes Project is funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).</span></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2018/01/digitized-field-notes-yield-rapid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adriana Marroquin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-5657627857700692928Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:30:00 +00002017-12-21T06:36:08.246-05:00BHLExpandingAccesschesapeake bayChesapeake Bay Foundation Contributes Annual and Investigative Reports to BHL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The <a href="http://www.cbf.org/">Chesapeake Bay Foundation</a> has spent the past fifty years working on a complex ecological problem. The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in Maryland, Delaware, D.C. and Virginia. While about half of its water comes from the Atlantic Ocean, the rest flows to the bay from 64,000 square miles of watershed - spanning 6 states and home to over 18 million people. Pollution from sewage, agriculture, and industry (as well as other impacts of human development) have degraded the bay’s water quality, damaging biodiversity as well as human health, economics, and recreation. Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is a private sector group using many approaches to tackle this regional issue.<br /><br />Thanks to CBF’s participation in the <a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2016/01/new-imls-funded-project-expanding.html?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=CBF">Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature</a> project, Annual Reports and Investigative Reports from CBF are now available on BHL. These publications document CBF’s initiatives in environmental science, restoration, education, advocacy and litigation.<br /><br />CBF has contributed its <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/119964?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=CBF">Annual Reports from 2008-2014</a> which track the organization’s accomplishments and goals. The Investigative Reports contributed to BHL are:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/214279?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=CBF">Climate change and the Chesapeake Bay : challenges, impacts, and the multiple benefits of agricultural conservation work</a></i> (2007)&nbsp;</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/214287?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=CBF">Bad waters : dead zones, algal blooms, and fish kills in the Chesapeake Bay region in 2007</a></i> (2007)&nbsp;</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52095187?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=CBF">Bad water and the decline of blue crabs in the Chesapeake bay</a></i> (2008)&nbsp;</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/214247?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=CBF">Bad water 2009 : the impact on human health in the Chesapeake Bay region</a></i> (2009)&nbsp;</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/215890?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=CBF">Angling for healthier rivers : the link between smallmouth bass mortality and disease and the need to reduce water pollution in Chesapeake Bay tributaries</a></i> (2013)&nbsp;</li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ClOWkL3gYlA/WirOb6nCVyI/AAAAAAAAHSk/OOfKNt0Ya0s9k6DtKk9ab2pSs-BM4uQjgCLcBGAs/s1600/annualreport00chese_0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="957" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ClOWkL3gYlA/WirOb6nCVyI/AAAAAAAAHSk/OOfKNt0Ya0s9k6DtKk9ab2pSs-BM4uQjgCLcBGAs/s400/annualreport00chese_0001.jpg" width="308" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atlantic Blue Crab on the cover of the 2011 Chesapeake Bay Foundation Annual Report. Contributed to BHL by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2jcgOHS">http://s.si.edu/2jcgOHS</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b><b>About the Chesapeake Bay Foundation</b><br /><br />CBF has been active in coastal conservation since 1967. With offices in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and D.C., as well as fifteen field centers, it’s the largest independent conservation organization dedicated to promoting the health of the Chesapeake Bay.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ebSAPDUtswQ/WirOx_WM3WI/AAAAAAAAHSo/gipkOTDDx-UUkLui7pXgSJ1qxw0tbvgKwCLcBGAs/s1600/About-CBF-infographic_695.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="695" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ebSAPDUtswQ/WirOx_WM3WI/AAAAAAAAHSo/gipkOTDDx-UUkLui7pXgSJ1qxw0tbvgKwCLcBGAs/s400/About-CBF-infographic_695.gif" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Infographic by Chesapeake Bay Foundation, web accessed 12/1/2017: <a href="http://www.cbf.org/about-cbf/history/decades-of-success/?referrer=http://www.cbf.org/about-cbf/history/">http://www.cbf.org/about-cbf/history/decades-of-success/?referrer=http://www.cbf.org/about-cbf/history/</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Over the decades, CBF has been instrumental in organizing and sustaining inter-state conservation work. In the 1970s, CBF called for and then provided staff support to a seven-year Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chesapeake Bay Study which analyzed the state of the bay and identified contributing problems. In the 1980s, based on the study’s results, CBF participated in negotiations for the first Chesapeake Bay Agreement, a cooperative inter-state commitment to reduce pollution. Today’s goals for bay cleanup are outlined in the <a href="http://www.cbf.org/how-we-save-the-bay/chesapeake-clean-water-blueprint/">Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint</a>, an interstate agreement that includes fairly-distributed, measurable goals as well as EPA-imposed consequences for failure to comply. CBF scientists evaluate the long-term progress of the Bay’s health by measuring indicators in three key areas: pollution, habitat, and fisheries.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-70AbQVaVj3o/WirO9AByXmI/AAAAAAAAHSw/k2REW6AnYQ0WaiyNuXLHjsRxqgw_SB0AwCLcBGAs/s1600/MCrk%2BField%2BPix%2B247.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-70AbQVaVj3o/WirO9AByXmI/AAAAAAAAHSw/k2REW6AnYQ0WaiyNuXLHjsRxqgw_SB0AwCLcBGAs/s400/MCrk%2BField%2BPix%2B247.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CBF’s education programs bring youth into the field for hands-on learning. Kids explore wetlands by boat and learn about watershed ecology and local fishing communities. Photo courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation/cbf.org.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />One of CBF’s many current projects has communities 'recycling' oyster shells. Restaurants and citizens bring their empty shells to drop-off points, where they are cleaned and then placed in tanks of swimming oyster larvae. The larvae anchor onto the shells and grow into young 'spat' oysters. Oyster gardeners place these shells in rivers and the Bay to help rebuild oyster reefs. This helps to restore the oyster population and improve water quality - one of these filter feeders can filter up to 50 gallons of water in a day.<br /><br />Thanks to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for sharing their extensive work with us on the Biodiversity Heritage Library!<br /><br /><b><i>By Elizabeth Meyer&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Library Project Assistant&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University</i></b><br /><br /><b>Source&nbsp;</b><br /><br />Chesapeake Bay Foundation (n.d.) Retrieved from <a href="http://www.cbf.org/">http://www.cbf.org/</a></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/12/chesapeake-bay-foundation-contributes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-1665713283311331403Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:30:00 +00002017-12-14T08:30:00.464-05:00book of the monthbook of the weekcrabcrustaceanNaturalisMagnificent Crustacea: Leach and Sowerby's Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DpKQKBvhSic/Wi7PvIENCfI/AAAAAAAAHTY/0I6JAGnd-McuvPRt7NjhFgnuvDQRsEfAQCLcBGAs/s1600/Fig.2_Naturalis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1315" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DpKQKBvhSic/Wi7PvIENCfI/AAAAAAAAHTY/0I6JAGnd-McuvPRt7NjhFgnuvDQRsEfAQCLcBGAs/s400/Fig.2_Naturalis.jpg" width="328" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Elford Leach. <i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</i>. Title page. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00626. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2iVddtH">http://s.si.edu/2iVddtH</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Without a doubt, <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/210018?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Naturalis%20Biodiversity%20Center">Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</a></i>&nbsp;(1815-1875) is one of the most beautiful publications dedicated to Crustacea. This work, <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/210018?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Naturalis%20Biodiversity%20Center">a very special proofprint copy of which has recently been digitized and made available on BHL by the Naturalis Library</a>, was the work of two well-known names in British natural history: the young zoologist William Elford Leach (1791-1836) and the experienced naturalist and engraver James Sowerby (1757-1822). The background and personal history of both gentlemen had a great influence on the coming about of the publication.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6nS6QXP_y1o/WjJtU2QSzVI/AAAAAAAAHU0/VO87w3cbfzwhhfkkx3dONsN8cLYo6OhYwCLcBGAs/s1600/malacostracapod00leac_0112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1261" data-original-width="1600" height="315" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6nS6QXP_y1o/WjJtU2QSzVI/AAAAAAAAHU0/VO87w3cbfzwhhfkkx3dONsN8cLYo6OhYwCLcBGAs/s400/malacostracapod00leac_0112.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by James Sowerby for <i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittaniae</i>, by William Elford Leach. Tab. XXXVI. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00732. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2Bmxmnu">http://s.si.edu/2Bmxmnu</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">William Elford Leach&nbsp;</h4><br />William Elford Leach was one of the great British zoologists of the beginning of the nineteenth century. He started his career as assistant librarian at the British Museum and was responsible for the zoological collections. He was given the task of reorganizing the collections of Hans Sloane, which formed the basis of the museum.<br /><br />Of the old carcinological collection, not much was left by the nineteenth century. Because of its deplorable condition, Leach's predecessors were forced to destroy much of the collection materials, and as a result, of the hundreds of crustaceans left by Sloane in the eighteenth century, only one specimen has survived to this day. The core of the current carcinological collections of the British Museum is formed by specimens collected under Leach’s supervision. Not only did material from all over the world come in through his scientific contacts, he also donated his personal collection to the museum.<br /><br />Leach’s merits go beyond collection building alone. He was a gifted taxonomist with a large scientific network who was therefore aware of the developments in systematics on the European continent. He shared this knowledge with his colleagues in Great Britain, organized the collections on a more scientific basis, and wrote a series of articles about it.<br /><br />The scientific names that Leach introduced were sometimes unusual and not appreciated by all. He named for instance countless genera after a certain Caroline. Leach used her (latenized) name playfully as an anagram to create genus names like <i>Ricenela</i> and <i>Cirolana</i>. Nevertheless, his work ethic was highly praised and his scientific productivity was second to none.<br /><br />Sadly, Leach’s career lasted only a decade. In 1821, he suffered a nervous breakdown from which he would never recover. A year later he departed from the museum. As a thank you for the enormous collections he had left behind, he received a pension from the British Museum. He did not fare much better after that. He traveled to France and Italy and died of cholera in 1836.<br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">James Sowerby&nbsp;</h4><br />Leach was a scientific innovator and brought the zoology in Great Britain to a higher level. Part of his success lay in his collaboration with a gifted artist. For the illustrations in <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/210018?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Naturalis%20Biodiversity%20Center">Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</a></i>, he relied on the detailed and colorful imagination of James Sowerby.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mgYIumLCiGQ/Wi7QdKMNN2I/AAAAAAAAHTg/E1TqkUU0JLMUJS7uQ2TAqrbl0ZgS7T8uQCLcBGAs/s1600/Fig.3_Naturalis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="653" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mgYIumLCiGQ/Wi7QdKMNN2I/AAAAAAAAHTg/E1TqkUU0JLMUJS7uQ2TAqrbl0ZgS7T8uQCLcBGAs/s400/Fig.3_Naturalis.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portrait of James Sowerby, by Thomas Heaphy. 1816. Wikimedia Commons. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/James_Sowerby#/media/File:James_Sowerby_by_Heaphy_(1816).jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/James_Sowerby#/media/File:James_Sowerby_by_Heaphy_(1816).jpg</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Sowerby was well known because of his extensive contributions to botanical masterpieces such as <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/217305">A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland</a></i>.<br /><br />Unlike most of his contemporaries, he was an artist who actively engaged in scientific work. He maintained correspondence with naturalists and urged them to send material that he could use for detailed studies. The colors that Sowerby used in his work are vivid and meant to appeal to a large audience. In 1809, he published a theory in which he stated that the basic colors red, yellow and blue offer all possibilities for botanical, zoological and geological imagination because these colors were given by nature.<br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Gold-plated Crabs and The Special Collection of Bibliotheca Carcinologica&nbsp;</h4><br />The Bibliotheca Carcinologica, a unique collection in the Naturalis Library of approximately 8,000 publications and a large reprint collection, holds two special copies of <i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</i>. This collection was amassed by a former curator, Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis (1921-2008), who for more than half a century was the leading expert in his field of crustacean taxonomy. He was particularly interested in collecting books that had been handed down by his famous predecessors.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLC8j-jhlV0/WjGHG85qSEI/AAAAAAAAHUc/V97qM3ghyr0vdiieQqoAsvFuMctG-5B4QCLcBGAs/s1600/08_06_Holthuis%2B2006%2BPhoto%2BTed%2BPietsch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLC8j-jhlV0/WjGHG85qSEI/AAAAAAAAHUc/V97qM3ghyr0vdiieQqoAsvFuMctG-5B4QCLcBGAs/s400/08_06_Holthuis%2B2006%2BPhoto%2BTed%2BPietsch.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L.B. Holthuis presented with his book (co-authored by Pietsch) about Lamotius. Photo: T.W. Pietsch, 2007, retouched by B. Kroonenberg.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Bibliotheca Carcinologica’s first copy of <i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</i> was specially bound for the British collector Henry Arthus Johnstone. It features a band of green morocco decorated with gilded crabs and Johnstone’s coat of arms.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uKUFYPFhDk4/Wi7Rqzwk1iI/AAAAAAAAHTw/S6XrbZFuksQcV-0GMSF4smx3wl7BEIPewCLcBGAs/s1600/Fig.4a_Naturalis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uKUFYPFhDk4/Wi7Rqzwk1iI/AAAAAAAAHTw/S6XrbZFuksQcV-0GMSF4smx3wl7BEIPewCLcBGAs/s400/Fig.4a_Naturalis.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Private binding from the library of Henry Arthur Johnstone for William Elford Leach's&nbsp;<i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</i>. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00626.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OMjgUkSALU0/Wi7RxvLAUqI/AAAAAAAAHT0/7-rqmu6jy14JVud2-jv-eTNB72hbbVsPACLcBGAs/s1600/Fig.4b_Naturalis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1065" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OMjgUkSALU0/Wi7RxvLAUqI/AAAAAAAAHT0/7-rqmu6jy14JVud2-jv-eTNB72hbbVsPACLcBGAs/s400/Fig.4b_Naturalis.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Private binding from the library of Henry Arthur Johnstone for William Elford Leach's&nbsp;<i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</i>. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00626.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Johnstone's library contained much natural history and was sold in its entirety to a London bookseller in 1921. Subsequently, the books have spread all over the world.<br /><br />A beautiful binding and a good provenance are of course desirable, but for Holthuis it was of greater importance that a copy was complete, and that in addition all information that provides insight into the publication’s history was preserved. At the back of Johnstone's copy of&nbsp;<i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</i>&nbsp;are the covers of the original seventeen plus the two later issues, revealing exact publication dates and an alternate original title, as well as providing insight into the intention of William Elford Leach with regards to the publication.<br /><br />On the cover of the first issue, Leach wrote that he wanted to publish twelve or fourteen episodes. He asked British naturalists to help make the publication as complete as possible and encouraged them to accurately analyze all the 'rubbish' that dredgers collected from the seabed. Apparently, his call was successful, because on the cover of the thirteenth issue, Leach indicates that the discovery of new species made it impossible to complete the work in fourteen episodes. The new goal was to complete it within eighteen or nineteen episodes.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iHQ4ADWuLHs/WjJslepXdrI/AAAAAAAAHUs/SOQ5Wbs6GloJMVWclYU0dlFr_MyV08n0ACLcBGAs/s1600/malacostracapod00leac_0187.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="1600" height="328" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iHQ4ADWuLHs/WjJslepXdrI/AAAAAAAAHUs/SOQ5Wbs6GloJMVWclYU0dlFr_MyV08n0ACLcBGAs/s400/malacostracapod00leac_0187.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by James Sowerby for <i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittaniae</i>, by William Elford Leach. Tab. XXIA. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00732.<a href="http://s.si.edu/2ysE5H4">http://s.si.edu/2ysE5H4</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />After the seventeenth episode that appeared on March 1, 1820, the publication ceased. Leach was unable to continue his work after his breakdown.&nbsp;<i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</i>&nbsp;was finally completed by George Brettinham Sowerby (1812-1884) over half a century later after the publisher Bernard Quaritch had bought up the stock remnants. Quaritch was sensitive to the wish of James Sowerby's descendant to finish the publication according to the original plan. In one additional episode published in 1875 as nos. XVIII and XIX, six more plates plus a beautiful plate of a European lobster (<i>Homarus gammarus</i>), which had previously been unfinished, were published.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GUjKc9ghymE/Wi7SWblO37I/AAAAAAAAHUA/KZDEU5p_Ef0Luixo0bW3mA4T0pKUgh8KACLcBGAs/s1600/Fig.5_Naturalis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GUjKc9ghymE/Wi7SWblO37I/AAAAAAAAHUA/KZDEU5p_Ef0Luixo0bW3mA4T0pKUgh8KACLcBGAs/s400/Fig.5_Naturalis.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">European lobster (<i>Homarus gammarus</i>). G.B. Sowerby, <i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittaniae</i>. Tab. XXXV. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00732.&nbsp;<a href="http://s.si.edu/2nRuVnp">http://s.si.edu/2nRuVnp</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Printing Proofs&nbsp;</h4><br />More than thirty years after Holthuis had acquired the fine copy from the library of Henry Arthur Johnstone, he bought a very expensive complete set of nineteen separate episodes of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/210018?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Naturalis%20Biodiversity%20Center">Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae</a></i>. On the surface, it is not immediately clear why he would do this: after all, the copy he already had in his possession was complete, with all of the plates and the original covers of the episodes. Further analysis shows that this second copy purchased by Holthuis represents the proofs that William Elford Leach used to provide direction for the publication. On <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51482260?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Naturalis%20Biodiversity%20Center">plate XXXIX</a>, for example, he writes: 'Can the rostrum be the added to this plate?'<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VyHIjJs4yZE/Wi7S_aRvDJI/AAAAAAAAHUI/_wx963mQ6MEEcftXQkcva4qlQZjxbO-SQCLcBGAs/s1600/Fig.6_Naturalis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1289" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VyHIjJs4yZE/Wi7S_aRvDJI/AAAAAAAAHUI/_wx963mQ6MEEcftXQkcva4qlQZjxbO-SQCLcBGAs/s400/Fig.6_Naturalis.jpg" width="321" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proof print. Illustration by James Sowerby for <i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittaniae</i>, by William Elford Leach. Tab. XXXIX. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00732. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2AvYOQ0">http://s.si.edu/2AvYOQ0</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The rostrum is a pointed, forward-looking deformity of the armor of a crustacean, which sometimes provides usable distinctive indication for taxonomic classification. No wonder Leach asked Sowerby if he could show that in detail. On the plate in Johnstone's copy of the title, the rostrum of <i>Spirontocaris spinus</i> is indeed added.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tjanb2VQE4I/Wi7TZZtPjNI/AAAAAAAAHUM/3mbPjFV9nVEeTq-yLFu_5nD4UCuueC3vwCLcBGAs/s1600/Fig.7._Naturalis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1129" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tjanb2VQE4I/Wi7TZZtPjNI/AAAAAAAAHUM/3mbPjFV9nVEeTq-yLFu_5nD4UCuueC3vwCLcBGAs/s400/Fig.7._Naturalis.jpg" width="281" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Elford Leach, <i>Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittaniae</i>. Tab. XXXIX. Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2kpJ46u">http://s.si.edu/2kpJ46u</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Other instructions from Leach have also been neatly followed up. The proofs have no direct meaning for the nomenclature; after all, these are unpublished trials with no published names. However, they do provide a good insight into the way Leach and Sowerby worked together and which colors they had in mind.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This unique proofprint copy has recently been digitized for BHL by the Naturalis Library. <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/210018?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=Naturalis%20Biodiversity%20Center">You can explore it in BHL for free</a>.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJKRAPdL57c/WjJu488WggI/AAAAAAAAHVE/KPKxtVqdbK0fxX-uDCdzVWNwfbX_h1cpgCLcBGAs/s1600/malacostracapod00leac_0083.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1217" data-original-width="1600" height="303" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJKRAPdL57c/WjJu488WggI/AAAAAAAAHVE/KPKxtVqdbK0fxX-uDCdzVWNwfbX_h1cpgCLcBGAs/s400/malacostracapod00leac_0083.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by James Sowerby for Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittaniae, by William Elford Leach. Tab. XXX. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00732. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2kti99F">http://s.si.edu/2kti99F</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Naturalis Library&nbsp;</h4><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>The library holds a large collections of scientific, taxonomic literature on zoology, geology, botany and palaeontology. It caters to everyone interested in researching biodiversity, geodiversity and evolution. The library is almost 200 years old and contains around 200,000 books, journals, drawings, prints, icones and many other archived materials.<br /><br />This blog is largely based on the chapter: Alex Alsemgeest, 'Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae: de drukproeven van het mooiste kreeftenboek. In: A. Alsemgeest en C. Fransen (eds.), <i>In krabbengang door kreeftenboeken: de Bibliotheca Carcinologica L.B. Holthuis</i> (Leiden: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2016), p. 123-127. <br /><br /><b><i>By Godard Tweehuysen&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Naturalis Library</i></b><br /><b><i>library@naturalis.nl</i></b></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/12/magnificent-crustacea-leach-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-8530401149811174857Fri, 08 Dec 2017 13:00:00 +00002017-12-08T15:33:36.769-05:00#BHLFNPAugust F. FoersteBHL field notes projectfield notesgeologysmithsonian archivesFrom Dayton to Cambridge and Back Again: the field notes of August F. Foerste<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Field notes are well known to be essential, primary material that provide details about collections and expeditions that aren’t found in published material or specimen labels. Field notes can also contain diary entries, poems, and sketches which give insight into the lives of the researchers themselves. And now, we can add the candy preferences of August F. Foerste to those insights.<br /><br />In his <i>Specimen notebook, Ohio, 1887-1888</i>, with no explanation, we find a list of several different candy recipes, including chocolate creams, lemon drops, and Neapolitan creams. Brings up quite a few questions. Who gave him the recipes? Was this the only paper he had available to write them down? Did he try to make them? Why is there a sugar syrup recipe at the end of the chocolate cream recipe with no explanation as to what to do with it? (This last one, admittedly, is more a personal inquiry of mine.)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zpdmeEahPAQ/Wim1m6FY4RI/AAAAAAAAAvk/orM-2RsWKAwvYXNkt0Wm0c5WzGHIo_GRACLcBGAs/s1600/specimennoteboo00foer_0020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="1600" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zpdmeEahPAQ/Wim1m6FY4RI/AAAAAAAAAvk/orM-2RsWKAwvYXNkt0Wm0c5WzGHIo_GRACLcBGAs/s320/specimennoteboo00foer_0020.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJJK7W3QexU/Wim1maHxPUI/AAAAAAAAAvg/BdSL-EG69M4FUZGhJ-F_5xFm8dv0KDovwCLcBGAs/s1600/specimennoteboo00foer_0021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="1600" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJJK7W3QexU/Wim1maHxPUI/AAAAAAAAAvg/BdSL-EG69M4FUZGhJ-F_5xFm8dv0KDovwCLcBGAs/s320/specimennoteboo00foer_0021.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Specimen notebook, Ohio, 1887-1888.</i> <br /><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/229964#page/20/mode/1up">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/229964</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />What we can determine is that they were written down in 1888 when Foerste was completing his master’s degree at Harvard University. In fact, on the facing page, pictured above, we see a note about Harvard’s collections, in particular “microscopic studies of bryozoan, sections of corals, dissected specimens of crinoids, [and] sections of brachiopoda shells.” So while he may have been briefly distracted by confection, he was still focused on his studies. In that same notebook, Foerste includes several illustrations of specimens.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vj-4Ynt8MV4/Wim2AzJnGMI/AAAAAAAAAvo/BBjWBHmfAjcJ31DnZN3MjJKhkLszl-GvACLcBGAs/s1600/specimennoteboo00foer_0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1441" data-original-width="1600" height="288" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vj-4Ynt8MV4/Wim2AzJnGMI/AAAAAAAAAvo/BBjWBHmfAjcJ31DnZN3MjJKhkLszl-GvACLcBGAs/s320/specimennoteboo00foer_0008.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Specimen notebook, Ohio, 1887-1888</i>. <br /><a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53858402">https://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/229964</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Foerste was a native of Dayton, Ohio. Like many naturalists, his early interests in science came about from wandering around town and taking note of the fossils, geological formations and stratigraphy of the local area. He completed his bachelor's degree at Denison University before continuing his studies in Cambridge, Mass. While at Harvard, Foesrte also served as part-time assistant with the United States Geological Survey. As part of the survey, he studied the stratigraphy and petrography of New England.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Jl1T2Xj3lMQ/Wim2urvgFWI/AAAAAAAAAvw/Ea-VEPViqGcske--GJnahWJVTrfXC1ZAgCLcBGAs/s1600/fieldnotesnewen00foer_0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="904" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Jl1T2Xj3lMQ/Wim2urvgFWI/AAAAAAAAAvw/Ea-VEPViqGcske--GJnahWJVTrfXC1ZAgCLcBGAs/s320/fieldnotesnewen00foer_0005.jpg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by Foerste while in Vermont for the U.S. Geological Survey. Foerste was also studying at Harvard at the time. <br /><i>Field notes, New England, undated.</i> <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54118346">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54118346</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />After graduating with his Ph.D, Foesrte would return to his hometown, spending most of his career as a teacher at Steele High School. During the summer breaks, he would go out into the field for the U.S. Geological Survey. As part of the BHL Field Notes Project, Smithsonian Institution Archives has digitized many of these notes. In 1932, he was appointed as Associate in Paleontology for the U.S. National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History) until his death in 1936.<br /><br />We are excited to share Foerste's field notes as part of the BHL Field Notes Project. You can view <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?SearchTerm=&amp;lname=Foerste&amp;vol=&amp;ed=&amp;yr=&amp;subj=&amp;lang=&amp;col=87&amp;SearchCat=T&amp;return=ADV#/titles">these and other notebooks by Foerste</a> in BHL. And if anyone gives those confection recipes a try, be sure to share with us!<br /><br /><br /><b>Written by&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Adriana Marroquin&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Project Manager, BHL Field Notes Project and Smithsonian Field Book Project&nbsp;</b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The BHL Field Notes Project is funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sources:&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217399">Finding Aid for "Record Unit 7242, Foerste, Aug. F,(Aug. Frederic),1862-1936, Aug. F. (Aug. Frederic) Foerste Papers, 1887-1933 and undated</a>"&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.centervillewashingtonhistory.org/people/august-f-foerste">"August F. Foerste." Centreville-Washington History.&nbsp;&nbsp;</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">For a transcribed copy of the recipes, check out the <a href="http://nmnh.typepad.com/fieldbooks/2017/11/field-book-flashback-holiday-recipes.html">Smithsonian Field Book Project's 2012 Holiday Card</a>, designed by Lesley Parilla. </span></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/12/from-dayton-to-cambridge-and-back-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adriana Marroquin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-5138262418887776978Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:30:00 +00002017-11-30T08:30:01.937-05:00amphibiansbook of the monthbook of the weekErnst Mayr Libraryherpetologyillustrationsreptilesscientific illustrationsmithsonian librariesThe Art of Herpetology: Schlegel's Reptiles and Amphibians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1jHYB6_Jfbw/WhSYY7fcBZI/AAAAAAAAHP8/WTZbl8Mid1wjP4bPRuOCRzrh9moEjcwIACLcBGAs/s1600/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="676" height="281" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1jHYB6_Jfbw/WhSYY7fcBZI/AAAAAAAAHP8/WTZbl8Mid1wjP4bPRuOCRzrh9moEjcwIACLcBGAs/s400/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0009.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schlegel, H. (Hermann). <i>Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibien</i>. 1837-1844. Atlas digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="http://s.si.edu/2AYBgPF">http://s.si.edu/2AYBgPF</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />German ornithologist and herpetologist Hermann Schlegel hoped that the publication of good illustrations would stimulate public interest in reptiles and amphibians. Thus, he produced <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/95393?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Collection%20Highlights&amp;utm_content=MCZ">Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibian</a></i> (1837-44).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RHOe8RiPv3I/WhSYgORIUEI/AAAAAAAAHQA/cvto00_A7dIjHSqmT1dKN8xQn0rOHJYwACLcBGAs/s1600/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0067.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="470" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RHOe8RiPv3I/WhSYgORIUEI/AAAAAAAAHQA/cvto00_A7dIjHSqmT1dKN8xQn0rOHJYwACLcBGAs/s400/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0067.jpg" width="277" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schlegel, H. (Hermann). <i>Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibien</i>. 1837-1844. Atlas digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="http://s.si.edu/2jLkYGC">http://s.si.edu/2jLkYGC</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Schlegel, who eventually became director of the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie), is best-known for his research on birds, but his initial interest was in herpetology. Inspired by other beautifully-illustrated natural history books that had aroused public interest in their subjects, Schlegel&nbsp;compiled this work comprised of <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/173246?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Collection%20Highlights&amp;utm_content=Smithsonian%20Libraries">an atlas</a> of 50 color plates and a <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192833?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Collection%20Highlights&amp;utm_content=MCZ">short volume of text</a>. Although the title mentions only amphibians, it describes and illustrates many reptile species as well.<br /><br />It is unclear why the book's title does not also mention reptiles. It has been suggested that the work's original scope may have intended to cover only amphibians, and that the title was not adjusted after the scope broadened. This, however, is merely conjecture.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ub5gKKJIN10/WhSYklwLvoI/AAAAAAAAHQE/Boa0qzdYvz8JR5-XU1C8IjZ9ZTx-xyRNQCLcBGAs/s1600/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0069.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="676" height="277" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ub5gKKJIN10/WhSYklwLvoI/AAAAAAAAHQE/Boa0qzdYvz8JR5-XU1C8IjZ9ZTx-xyRNQCLcBGAs/s400/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0069.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schlegel, H. (Hermann). <i>Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibien</i>. 1837-1844. Atlas digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="http://s.si.edu/2jcxafn">http://s.si.edu/2jcxafn</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Unfortunately, the names of the artists who produced the drawings upon which these plates are based are unknown. Schlegel&nbsp;mentioned only that he received the illustrations from painters working in India.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8ZB3H9ed818/WhSYpsFzFNI/AAAAAAAAHQI/TGjBSXoxl30xzqTd7f5zZO2EYTyFjypuACLcBGAs/s1600/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0083.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="470" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8ZB3H9ed818/WhSYpsFzFNI/AAAAAAAAHQI/TGjBSXoxl30xzqTd7f5zZO2EYTyFjypuACLcBGAs/s400/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0083.jpg" width="277" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schlegel, H. (Hermann). <i>Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibien</i>. 1837-1844. Atlas digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="http://s.si.edu/2zaEmj2">http://s.si.edu/2zaEmj2</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192833?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Collection%20Highlights&amp;utm_content=MCZ">text volume</a> of this work was digitized by Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. The <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/173246?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Collection%20Highlights&amp;utm_content=Smithsonian%20Libraries">atlas</a> was digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7lXIpdBXsSo/WhSYvadt5KI/AAAAAAAAHQM/LqG8Usmy6NQWVsYbd0SlCbOujCkNoPRjgCLcBGAs/s1600/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="676" height="277" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7lXIpdBXsSo/WhSYvadt5KI/AAAAAAAAHQM/LqG8Usmy6NQWVsYbd0SlCbOujCkNoPRjgCLcBGAs/s400/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0049.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schlegel, H. (Hermann). <i>Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibien</i>. 1837-1844. Atlas digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="http://s.si.edu/2hQxOmb">http://s.si.edu/2hQxOmb</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_jCxl4yYnrw/WhSY3SM0VWI/AAAAAAAAHQQ/Bj498m1MGvIEopWPeW_ETgflo5Aj_PSxQCLcBGAs/s1600/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="470" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_jCxl4yYnrw/WhSY3SM0VWI/AAAAAAAAHQQ/Bj498m1MGvIEopWPeW_ETgflo5Aj_PSxQCLcBGAs/s400/Abbildungenneue00Schl_0055.jpg" width="277" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schlegel, H. (Hermann). <i>Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibien</i>. 1837-1844. Atlas digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="http://s.si.edu/2jcoLbU">http://s.si.edu/2jcoLbU</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b><b>Reference:</b><br />Stiassny, Melanie L.J. (2014). Schlegel's Guide to Amphibians. <i>Natural Histories Opulent Oceans: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library.&nbsp;</i>New York: Sterling Publishing.&nbsp;</div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/11/the-art-of-herpetology-schlegels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-1978690002199758317Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:30:00 +00002017-11-21T08:30:17.815-05:00book of the monthbook of the weekbotanyCaribbeanplantsThe New York Botanical GardenFlore d'Amérique: Illustrating America’s Tropical Flora<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P9NrMeUIEK8/WfuBuZHhfhI/AAAAAAAAHNc/tBD4HXJT80cxgGJPtTGieikMcorBmlRzACLcBGAs/s1600/Denisse1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1059" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P9NrMeUIEK8/WfuBuZHhfhI/AAAAAAAAHNc/tBD4HXJT80cxgGJPtTGieikMcorBmlRzACLcBGAs/s400/Denisse1.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denisse, Etienne. <i>Flore d'Amérique</i>. 1843-46. Digitized by the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2Ac5T4m.">http://s.si.edu/2Ac5T4m.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />In the 1840s, Europe was enraptured by the beauty of America’s tropical flora. With the production of the lavishly-illustrated <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185335?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Flore d'Amérique</a></i> (1843-46), Etienne Denisse brought the exotic flowers, fruits, trees, vines, and nuts growing in the Caribbean Islands to captivated readers across the Atlantic.<br /><br />As a lithographer for the French royal court, Etienne Denisse spent his early career at the botanical garden of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, but employment by the government took Denisse’s work to the New World. He spent many years in the French West Indies, illustrating and collecting plants from the region and sending specimens back to France [4] [2].<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EaGVM8gg4hI/WfuB-CRW0QI/AAAAAAAAHNg/jBLDiBn4kVkSVfJ4EcFRDZufwCIt4xRCACLcBGAs/s1600/Denisse2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1058" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EaGVM8gg4hI/WfuB-CRW0QI/AAAAAAAAHNg/jBLDiBn4kVkSVfJ4EcFRDZufwCIt4xRCACLcBGAs/s400/Denisse2.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denisse, Etienne. Denisse, Etienne. <i>Flore d'Amérique</i>. 1843-46. Digitized by the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2iXrY2J">http://s.si.edu/2iXrY2J</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Denisse’s work in America culminated in the production of the magnificent <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185335?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Flore d'Amérique</a></i>, comprised of a total of 201 plates. This title is very rare, and copies are often incomplete. However, thanks to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden, anyone in the world can freely access Denisse’s masterpiece <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185335?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=NYBG#page/1/mode/1up">through the Biodiversity Heritage Library</a><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org="">.&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><br /></http:><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185335?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Flore d'Amérique</a></i>’s stunning hand-colored lithographic plates were based on drawings “from nature” by Denisse. The work was issued in fascicles of six plates between 1843-1846 [2]. Imprints on the individual plates credit both the Parisian firm Gihaut Frères (plates 1-49,64-72) and Denisse (plates 50-63, 73-200) as publishers.&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><br /></http:><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dCyrqv-OpIU/WfuCOxbJkxI/AAAAAAAAHNo/soTDTv30wL87T12K0YXWave0yqNDCn4_QCLcBGAs/s1600/Denisse3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1058" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dCyrqv-OpIU/WfuCOxbJkxI/AAAAAAAAHNo/soTDTv30wL87T12K0YXWave0yqNDCn4_QCLcBGAs/s400/Denisse3.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denisse, Etienne. Denisse, Etienne. <i>Flore d'Amérique</i>. 1843-46. Digitized by the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2hxKkUk">http://s.si.edu/2hxKkUk</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><br /></http:><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org="">Originally founded by Antoine François Gihaut as a firm of printsellers, Gihaut Frères expanded into publishing after Gihaut’s sons, Jean François and Michel Ange, took charge of the operation in 1822. In 1829, the firm received a brevet to serve as lithographic printers, but after 1839, this work was contracted out to other lithographic printing houses [1]. A variety of lithographic printers are credited via imprints throughout the plates within <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185335?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Flore d'Amérique</a></i>, including d'Aubert &amp; C.ie, Laujol, Kaeppelin &amp; C.ie, Vayron, and Becquet.&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><br /></http:><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org="">In 2007, The New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library opened an exhibition celebrating the Caribbean’s history, culture, and biodiversity. Entitled <i>Paradise in Print</i>, the exhibition showcased the rich flora of the region through the display of printed folio editions, rare books, and original watercolors from the Library’s collection [3].&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><br /></http:><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VsANJG1JIzQ/WfuCeMyfv9I/AAAAAAAAHNs/OljTjV0E6hkevTbaZJBV30y8p9W1nkcBACLcBGAs/s1600/Denisse4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1058" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VsANJG1JIzQ/WfuCeMyfv9I/AAAAAAAAHNs/OljTjV0E6hkevTbaZJBV30y8p9W1nkcBACLcBGAs/s400/Denisse4.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denisse, Etienne. Denisse, Etienne. <i>Flore d'Amérique</i>. 1843-46. Digitized by the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2ipbuMS">http://s.si.edu/2ipbuMS</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><br /></http:><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org="">Fittingly, Denisse’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185335?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=Book%20of%20the%20Month&amp;utm_content=NYBG">Flore d'Amérique</a></i> was among the treasures displayed as part of the exhibition. Through the printed page, Denisse and his fellow European explorers introduced the wonders of the New World to a broader audience across the Atlantic. Today, these illustrated publications are both works of art and valuable historical records that help provide insight into the ways in which European contact with America impacted the region’s biodiversity and culture.&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums/72157680835757443"><br /></a></http:><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums/72157680835757443">View all of the illustrations from <i>Flore d'Amérique</i> in the BHL Flickr</a>.&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><br /></http:><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><b><i>By Grace Costantino</i></b></http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><b><i>Outreach and Communication Manager</i></b></http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><b><i>Biodiversity Heritage Library</i></b></http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><b><br /></b></http:><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><b>References</b>&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org=""><br /></http:><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org="">[1] British Museum. 2017. “Gihaut Frères (Biographical details).” Research. Accessed September 14, 2017. <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=123627">http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=123627</a>.&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org="">[2] Christie’s Auction House. 2014. “Denisse, Etienne.” Sale 3400, December 4. Accessed September 14, 2017. <a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/denisse-etienne-fl-1814-1857-flore-damerique-dessinee-5855859-details.aspx">http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/denisse-etienne-fl-1814-1857-flore-damerique-dessinee-5855859-details.aspx</a>/.&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org="">[3] Dorfman, Jane, Marie Long and Stephen Sinon. 2007. Paradise in Print: Exhibition Catalog. Bronx: The New York Botanical Garden.&nbsp;</http:><br /><http: item="" www.biodiversitylibrary.org="">[4] Mullarkey, Maureen. 2007. “Botanical Eden.” The New York Sun, August 2. </http:></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/11/flore-damerique-illustrating-americas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-4260633744707286845Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:30:00 +00002017-11-29T11:45:39.080-05:00#BHLNDSR#NDSRbhlndsrIMLSSeries Two: BHL NDSR Webinars<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In November, four of our BHL NDSR residents delivered webinars reporting on the results of their research and recommendations on how we might best improve the features and functionality of BHL to incorporate new technologies and evolving best practices for digital libraries and the larger biodiversity community.<br /><br />You can view recordings of these past webinars:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Alicia Esquivel (Chicago Botanic Garden): <a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pcb8q6y4yy16/">BHL Collections Analysis</a></li><li>Katie Mika (Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University): <a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pk7ctpfe00a4/">Transcriptions, Crowdsourcing and Metadata for BHL</a></li><li>Pam McClanahan (Smithsonian Libraries): <a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pd0piuxxvs2z/">BHL User Studies</a></li><li>Marissa Kings (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County): <a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pri8c4khg5sz/">Best Practices for Digital Libraries</a></li></ul><div><b><u><br /></u></b><b><u>BHL NDSR Webinar Schedule: Series Two</u></b><br />Please mark your calendars and join us for the final two webinars in our BHL NDSR series:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ledhUAVwFqQ/WgymJBuwYZI/AAAAAAAAHOk/V8KdwqUK7k8qPhzRsrFpsvyVVsCmyi3xQCLcBGAs/s1600/Series%2BTwo%2BBLOG%2BNDSR%2BWebinars%2BTwitter.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ledhUAVwFqQ/WgymJBuwYZI/AAAAAAAAHOk/V8KdwqUK7k8qPhzRsrFpsvyVVsCmyi3xQCLcBGAs/s400/Series%2BTwo%2BBLOG%2BNDSR%2BWebinars%2BTwitter.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><b>November 27, 2017 at 2:00pm ET</b><br />Marissa Kings, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County<br />Biodiversity Heritage Library: Best Practices for Digital Libraries<br />Seminar Room: iDigBio Conference Room ( 500 ) <br />URL: <a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/</a><br /><br /><b>December 5, 2017 at 2:00pm ET</b><br />Ariadne Rehbein, Missouri Botanical Garden<br />Biodiversity Heritage Library: Enabling Image Discovery<br />Seminar Room: iDigBio Conference Room ( 500 )<br />URL: <a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/</a><br /><div><br /></div><b>New to Adobe Connect?</b> We recommend following the link to the webinar about 15-20 minutes before the start time to install any add-ins as needed and to run the Audio Wizard. 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Hope you can join us!</div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/11/series-two-bhl-ndsr-webinars.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-2313557726558434590Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:30:00 +00002017-11-17T08:30:25.555-05:00Canadian Museum of NatureOttawaPresentationsTDWGTDWG 2017 Annual Conference: Data Integration in a Big Data Universe: Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-raLEMQTtGSM/Wgcsc3O4dtI/AAAAAAABItk/8DgN7bhIo8ITcRNtj97J0q5y53B3hG5bgCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-10-03%2B09.34.12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-raLEMQTtGSM/Wgcsc3O4dtI/AAAAAAABItk/8DgN7bhIo8ITcRNtj97J0q5y53B3hG5bgCLcBGAs/s320/2017-10-03%2B09.34.12.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an institutional member of TDWG. TDWG was formed to:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">establish international collaboration among biological database projects. TDWG promoted the wider and more effective dissemination of information about the World's heritage of biological organisms for the benefit of the world at large. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) now focuses on the development of standards for the exchange of biological/biodiversity data.</blockquote><br />The&nbsp;<a href="https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/">TDWG 2017 Annual Conference</a>,&nbsp;the theme of which was "Data Integration in a Big Data Universe: Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments" (see the&nbsp;<a href="https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/program/TDWG2017_Program.pdf">full program here</a>),&nbsp; provides the opportunity for bioinformatics professionals to meet and exchange a wide variety of ideas. Held in Ottawa, Ontario, the conference was hosted by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.agr.gc.ca/">Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada</a> and the <a href="http://www.nature.ca/">Canadian Museum of Nature</a> (a BHL Affiliate).<br /><br />This year, The Biodiversity Heritage Library organized a symposium, "500 Years of Big Data from the Biodiversity Heritage Library", organized by BHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic and BHL Program Manager Carolyn A. Sheffield. In addition to the BHL symposium, BHL web developer Mike Lichtenberg participated in the symposium "Using Big Data Techniques to Cross Dataset Boundaries - Integration and Analysis of Multiple Datasets", organized by Kalfatovic, Matthew Collins, and Robert Guralnick.<br /><br />See details about the symposiums below:<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3>BHL Symposium (abstracts found in the links below)</h3><div><br /></div><ul><li>A path to continuous reindexing of scientific names appearing in Biodiversity Heritage Library data / Dmitry Mozzherin, Alexander A Myltsev.&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20186">Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 1: e20186 (11 Aug 2017)</a></li><li>Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature / Mariah Lewis.&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20146">Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 1: e20146 (10 Aug 2017)</a></li><li>BHL’s Feedback Tools and User Surveys: Investigating User Needs for Data in Digital Libraries / Carolyn A. Sheffield, Pamela McClanahan.&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20003">Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 1: e20003 (03 Aug 2017)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/Kalfatovic/how-did-we-get-here-from-there-the-origin-story-of-the-biodiversity-heritage-library">How Did BHL Get to Big Data</a>&nbsp;/ Martin R. Kalfatovic.&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20002">Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 1: e20002 (03 Aug 2017)</a></li><li>Scientific Names: Linking the Past to Provide Context for Knowledge / Thomas M. Orrell, David Mitchell.&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19937">Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 1: e19937 (01 Aug 2017)</a></li><li>Crowdsourcing Data Enhancements to Improve Named Entity Recognition in the Biodiversity Heritage Library / Katie Mika.&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.17354">Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 1: e17354 (25 Jul 2017)</a></li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8iSzzaTP9CE/Wgc0s49voUI/AAAAAAABIuQ/3LTBzEjfmA8IuCyex0-vCgb9faoXYZ10QCLcBGAs/s1600/2017_TDWG_BHLSymp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="1506" height="106" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8iSzzaTP9CE/Wgc0s49voUI/AAAAAAABIuQ/3LTBzEjfmA8IuCyex0-vCgb9faoXYZ10QCLcBGAs/s400/2017_TDWG_BHLSymp.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From left: Lewis, Orrell, Mozzherin, Mika, Sheffield</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><h3>Symposium:&nbsp;Using Big Data Techniques to Cross Dataset Boundaries - Integration and Analysis of Multiple Datasets</h3><div><br /></div><ul><li>BHL: A Source for Big Data Analysis / Mike Lichtenberg.&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20339">Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 1: e20339 (16 Aug 2017)</a>.&nbsp;</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eUNu1kJVWXg/WgcvB3PEc2I/AAAAAAABIuA/hnG69-XFWqIKNDXy2NbRbKP1Gj145K3BgCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-10-04%2B11.04.43.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eUNu1kJVWXg/WgcvB3PEc2I/AAAAAAABIuA/hnG69-XFWqIKNDXy2NbRbKP1Gj145K3BgCLcBGAs/s320/2017-10-04%2B11.04.43.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><h3>Excursion</h3><div><br />TDWG also offered the opportunity for excursions. The Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) provided an amazing tour of their <a href="http://www.nature.ca/en/research-collections/collections">collections facilities</a> located just outside the city. The CMN library is also located at this facility and it was great to meet with the library staff and see their collections.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a1Z-2-4HOeI/WgcuAvmnQPI/AAAAAAABItw/WNYIq_BhO4MjW9TfaTlWBRHAK0bC6O_-gCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-10-04%2B13.41.58.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a1Z-2-4HOeI/WgcuAvmnQPI/AAAAAAABItw/WNYIq_BhO4MjW9TfaTlWBRHAK0bC6O_-gCLcBGAs/s320/2017-10-04%2B13.41.58.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J7-I-wlYP3I/WgcumjNAmmI/AAAAAAABIt4/CAn6geig0FYjXn4PJXRSCZb64DYHwwF-gCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-10-04%2B14.45.10-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J7-I-wlYP3I/WgcumjNAmmI/AAAAAAABIt4/CAn6geig0FYjXn4PJXRSCZb64DYHwwF-gCLcBGAs/s320/2017-10-04%2B14.45.10-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5MibEoIap-U/WgcuwOdnlsI/AAAAAAABIt8/kJ2GIMmaCoYKLq4_EAKp_MLdAd5a0yImACLcBGAs/s1600/2017-10-04%2B15.47.04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5MibEoIap-U/WgcuwOdnlsI/AAAAAAABIt8/kJ2GIMmaCoYKLq4_EAKp_MLdAd5a0yImACLcBGAs/s320/2017-10-04%2B15.47.04.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G-xF2dbr6Oc/Wgc1yp0ckaI/AAAAAAABIuY/YgiKUmVyxVAbIqH94CVjIydOXAH5oGrSQCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-10-04%2B13.49.30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G-xF2dbr6Oc/Wgc1yp0ckaI/AAAAAAABIuY/YgiKUmVyxVAbIqH94CVjIydOXAH5oGrSQCLcBGAs/s320/2017-10-04%2B13.49.30.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><b><i>By Martin R. Kalfatovic</i></b><br /><b><i>Program Director</i></b><br /><b><i>Biodiversity Heritage Library</i></b></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/11/tdwg-2017-annual-conference-data.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin Kalfatovic)1Ottawa, ON, Canada45.4215296 -75.69719309999999344.7060866 -76.988086599999988 46.1369726 -74.4062996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-5501373813376954027Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:30:00 +00002017-12-12T08:35:53.362-05:00BHLExpandingAccessbotanyEABLeconomic botanymedical botanymedicineYale UniversityJohn Forbes Royle: Materia Medica and Economic Botany<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As part of the <a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2016/01/new-imls-funded-project-expanding.html">Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project</a>, an interesting title was added to BHL from Yale University’s <a href="http://library.medicine.yale.edu/">Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library</a> and the online <a href="http://www.medicalheritage.org/">Medical Heritage Library</a>: <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/199214?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=Yale">An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College</a></i>, by physician-botanist John Forbes Royle.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D-1nIY5R7V8/WgxqEs5sOOI/AAAAAAAAHOA/bUzgen6WlHAMg5ZiS2zPPoeahm5TnmeOgCLcBGAs/s1600/39002086310373.med.yale.edu_0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="340" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D-1nIY5R7V8/WgxqEs5sOOI/AAAAAAAAHOA/bUzgen6WlHAMg5ZiS2zPPoeahm5TnmeOgCLcBGAs/s400/39002086310373.med.yale.edu_0006.jpg" width="228" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title page of <i>An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College</i>, by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/181717#/titles">Royle, J. Forbes (John Forbes), 1799-1858</a>. London, Allen, 1837. Digitized by Yale University via the Medical Heritage Library. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2mtstTx">http://s.si.edu/2mtstTx</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />This work from 1837 documents the materia medica (pharmacology) of India, and explores the historical exchange of medicinal knowledge between cultural groups of India, Arabia, Persia, Greece and China. Including details in botany, ecology, minerology and astronomy, it’s an intriguing interdisciplinary resource that can also be read for insights on its Western author and this period in time.<br /><br />John Forbes Royle (1798-1858) traded his plan to join the British army for an unexpected interest in natural history. He was born at Kanpur, India, and would return to India after attending Edinburgh High School and the East India Company's military academy at Addiscombe. Inspired by the mentorship of physician Anthony Todd Thomson, Royle chose to pursue medicine as a means to further his study of botany. He became an assistant surgeon with the East India Company, and in the following years worked at several locations across northern India, where he studied medicines from bazaars, employed collectors to amass a collection of economic plants, and became superintendent of the garden at Saharanpur. He earned the titles of MD in 1833 and Professor of Materia Medica at King's College, London, in 1836.<br /><br />An excerpt from <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/199214?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=Yale">Essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine</a></i> demonstrates Royle’s interconnected thinking on medicine:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br />"There are, however, two branches of this extensive science [botany], respecting which I am desirous of making a few observations; one is the connexion between the Structure and Natural affinities of plants, and their Physical and Medical properties; and the other is the Geographical distribution, especially as connected with Climate. Both are important subjects, whether we consider them in a scientific or a practical point of view. The one teaches us the laws which influence the distribution of plants; points out the countries and climates which different families affect; and gives us principles for their cultivation, either as medicines, or as objects of agriculture: the other is no less valuable in affording us innumerable indications in every part of the world, for discovering the properties of new and unknown plants, whether as fitting them for food, for medicine, or for any of the arts of life[.]" [Royle, <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49922366?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=Yale">p. 3</a>]</blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcXJ_iUYN6E/Wgxs74Px2RI/AAAAAAAAHOM/9ruwtDLNMYELKIFQH-ESfFZ94UIoayO2wCLcBGAs/s1600/mobot31753000791456_0206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="651" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcXJ_iUYN6E/Wgxs74Px2RI/AAAAAAAAHOM/9ruwtDLNMYELKIFQH-ESfFZ94UIoayO2wCLcBGAs/s400/mobot31753000791456_0206.jpg" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cinchona</i>, a South American genus. Its bark contains medicinal compounds including quinine, used to treat malaria. Royle recommended that <i>Cinchona</i> be grown in India. Image from BHL book: <i>Icones plantarum medico-oeconomico-technologicarum cum earum fructus ususque descriptione</i>. Wien:herausgegeben von Ignatz Albrecht und verlegt bey Phil. Jos. Schalbaecher, [1800]-1822. Digitized by Missouri Botanical Garden. <a href="http://s.si.edu/2iiHgMh">http://s.si.edu/2iiHgMh</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Cushing/Whitney Medical Library of Yale University&nbsp;</h4><br />The copy of Royle’s text in BHL belonged to Edward Salisbury, a Yale graduate and professor who encouraged scholarship on West and South Asia. Salisbury donated his “Oriental Library,” a collection of hundreds of rare and early printed books and manuscripts, to the college in 1870. Salisbury’s Oriental Library is foundational to what is now the third-largest collection of Islamic manuscripts in the United States. Last year, Yale celebrated Salisbury’s 175th anniversary as the first professor of Arabic and Sanskrit languages and literature in the Americas.<br /><br /><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/199214?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=Yale">Essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine</a></i> is now held at the Medical Historical Library of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. The library was named for Yale graduates Harvey Cushing, known as the father of neurosurgery, and John Hay Whitney, Herald Tribune editor and patron of the arts. In 1935, Cushing and two other physicians, John F. Fulton and Arnold C. Klebs, donated their personal collections of medical texts to the medical library, beginning its Medical Historical Library. Its collections include materials ranging from the 16th to 20th century, with works from Robert Boyle, Galen, William Harvey, Hippocrates, and Andreas Vesalius. Additionally, the Historical Library also holds prints, a collection of weights and measures, and presents rotating exhibits.<br /><br />The Cushing/Whitney Library is also home to the <a href="http://library.medicine.yale.edu/cushingcenter/history">Cushing Center</a>, a room in the stacks transformed to display the medical specimens of Cushing’s Brain Tumor Registry. Cushing meticulously documented over 2,200 case studies as he pioneered the field of neurosurgery, and his registry includes specimens preserved from human surgeries and autopsies as well as notes, journal excerpts, photos and negatives.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-REmMApAaDVc/Wgxtt_pHfEI/AAAAAAAAHOU/5-qVhru27uwZ5_DKDl6JbBmLgGu1gL-bACLcBGAs/s1600/cushingwhitneylibrary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1203" height="265" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-REmMApAaDVc/Wgxtt_pHfEI/AAAAAAAAHOU/5-qVhru27uwZ5_DKDl6JbBmLgGu1gL-bACLcBGAs/s400/cushingwhitneylibrary.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library Historical Library. Frank Poole, 2004.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Medical Heritage Library&nbsp;</h4><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary">The Medical Heritage Library</a> (MHL) is an online collection of materials that are free and openly accessible through the Internet Archive. Royle’s <i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/199214?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=Yale">Essay on antiquity of Hindoo medicine</a></i> came to BHL via the MHL.<br /><br />Much like BHL, the MHL is a collaborative effort by medical libraries to promote access to resources (such as rare books, pamphlets, journals and films) that are useful across a spectrum of disciplines. The collection includes over 200,000 titles with fascinating variety - <a href="https://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary">skimming the landing page</a>, one can find herbals, medical dictionaries and papers, as well as video clips of 1960s tobacco commercials and Helen Keller’s autobiography.<br /><br />The Medical Heritage Library was launched in 2010 by founders <a href="http://library.cumc.columbia.edu/">The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library</a> at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services; <a href="http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/library">The College of Physicians of Philadelphia</a>; <a href="http://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical">The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library</a> at Yale University; <a href="https://www.countway.harvard.edu/node">The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine</a> at Harvard University; <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/">U.S. National Library of Medicine</a>; and <a href="https://wellcomelibrary.org/">Wellcome Library</a> in London, UK. (For more information about its content contributors, funding and support, please see <a href="http://www.medicalheritage.org/about/">MHL’s ‘About’ page</a>.)<br /><br /><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/199214?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=Yale">An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo Medicine</a></i> is a welcome addition to BHL’s collection of works by John Forbes Royle, which include:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9615?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=MBG">Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains: and of the flora of Cashmere</a></i>. London: Wm. H. Allen, 1839. (Digitized by Missouri Botanical Garden)&nbsp;</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98447?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=UBCL">On the culture and commerce of cotton in India and elsewhere; with an account of the experiments made by the Hon. East India Company up to the present time</a></i>. London: Smith, Elder, 1851. (Digitized by the University of British Columbia Library)</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/115996?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=Cornell">The fibrous plants of India, fitted for cordage, clothing, and paper. With an account of the cultivation and preparation of flax, hemp, and their substitutes</a></i>. London, Smith, Elder, and Co.; 1855. (Digitized by Cornell University Library)&nbsp;</li><li><i><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/188444?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Expanding%20Access&amp;utm_content=Kings%20College">A manual of materia medica and therapeutics including the preparations of the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, with other approved medicines</a></i>. London: John Churchill, MDCCCLVI [1856]. (Digitized by&nbsp;King's College London, Foyle Special Collections Library)</li></ul><br /><br />Thanks to Melissa Grafe, Ph.D, Head of the Medical Historical Library and John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, who shared how this volume came to the Medical Historical Library.<br /><br /><b><i>By Elizabeth Meyer&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Library&nbsp;</i></b><b><i>Project Assistant&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University</i></b><br /><br /><b>Sources</b><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>About (n.d.) Retrieved from&nbsp;<a href="http://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary&amp;tab=about">http://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary&amp;tab=about</a>.&nbsp;</li><li>About (n.d.) Retrieved from <a href="http://www.medicalheritage.org/about/">http://www.medicalheritage.org/about/</a>.&nbsp;</li><li>About (n.d) Retrieved from <a href="https://salisbury175.yale.edu/about">https://salisbury175.yale.edu/about</a>.&nbsp;</li><li>Harvey Cushing and the Cushing Center (n.d.) Retrieved from <a href="http://library.medicine.yale.edu/cushingcenter/history">http://library.medicine.yale.edu/cushingcenter/history</a>.&nbsp;</li><li>History of the Library (n.d.) Retrieved from <a href="http://library.medicine.yale.edu/about/history">http://library.medicine.yale.edu/about/history</a>.&nbsp;</li><li>Royle, John Forbes (1837). London, Allen. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/199214">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/199214</a>.</li><li>Woodward, B. B. “Royle, John Forbes (1798–1858).” Rev. Mark Harrison. <i>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</i>. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. David Cannadine. May 2010. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24239">http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24239</a>.</li></ul></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/11/john-forbes-royle-materia-medica-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-365865941739852818Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:30:00 +00002017-11-09T08:39:36.589-05:00Alfred Russel Wallacebhl usersCharles Darwincorrespondenceevolutionnatural history museum londonnatural selectionBHL Facilitates Research on Alfred Russel Wallace's Legacy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xq6C6cnmub8/Wfivi-R-J8I/AAAAAAAAHM4/SJkUoJ5yVJowX_mfzx_tNG2-W1eGQRdsACLcBGAs/s1600/ARW%2Bin%2B1869.Colour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="413" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xq6C6cnmub8/Wfivi-R-J8I/AAAAAAAAHM4/SJkUoJ5yVJowX_mfzx_tNG2-W1eGQRdsACLcBGAs/s400/ARW%2Bin%2B1869.Colour.jpg" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfred Russel Wallace in 1869. Copyright George Beccaloni.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />In 1854, Alfred Russel Wallace began an eight year collecting trip to Southeast Asia, through the region he called the <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/49461?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=NHM%20London">Malay Archipelago</a>&nbsp;(now Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and East Timor). It was during this expedition, in the midst of a fever in 1858, that <a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2013/01/wallace-darwin-and-evolution-real-story.html">Wallace conceived</a> (independently of Darwin) of the theory of natural selection. Wallace expanded his idea into a detailed article which he sent to Charles Darwin for comment, unaware that Darwin himself had come to the same conclusion, though he had yet to publish the theory.<br /><br />At the suggestion of Darwin's friends Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker, Wallace's article, together with unpublished writings by Darwin on the subject of natural selection and evolution, were presented to the Linnean Society in 1858 and subsequently published in the Society's journal as "<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2311239?utm_medium=social%20media&amp;utm_source=blogger&amp;utm_campaign=BHL%20Users&amp;utm_content=NHM%20London">On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and On the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection</a>," with Darwin and Wallace as co-authors.<br /><br />While important for its link to the theory of evolution by means of natural selection, Wallace's Malay Archipelago expedition was also scientifically significant from a collecting standpoint.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3mny3-r6C5I/WfivsX4qpSI/AAAAAAAAHM8/vCyoIbbQ4Skq071eH-JUm69NzDYPYCsVACLcBGAs/s1600/Attenborough%252CBeccaloni%2526Bailey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="700" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3mny3-r6C5I/WfivsX4qpSI/AAAAAAAAHM8/vCyoIbbQ4Skq071eH-JUm69NzDYPYCsVACLcBGAs/s400/Attenborough%252CBeccaloni%2526Bailey.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beccaloni (center) with the Patrons of his Wallace projects. Sir David Attenborough (left), Patron of the Wallace Correspondence Project, and Bill Bailey (right), Patron of the Wallace Memorial Fund. Photographed at London's Natural History Museum in 2012. Copyright Jan Beccaloni.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Dr. George Beccaloni, Director of the <a href="http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage">Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project</a>&nbsp;(an open access archive of Wallace's manuscripts), is working to catalog the animal species collected by him during his expedition. Not surprisingly, given the sheer number of specimens and the passage of time, this is a challenging endeavor.<br /><br />"We know Wallace collected nearly 126,000 specimens: about 110,000 insects, 7,500 shells, 8,050 bird skins, and 410 mammals and reptiles, which ranged from Orangutans to Birds of Paradise, from land snails to cockroaches, from Birdwing butterflies to tiny parasitic wasps," shares Beccaloni. "I have estimated that about 5,000 of them were new to science, but apart from the 295 species he described himself, there is no list of all the others - or the many species he collected which already had scientific names."<br /><br />Scientific literature is a valuable source of information on Wallace's specimens, but locating the relevant publications is itself a challenge.<br /><br />"I am collaborating with colleagues in Southeast Asia and at London's Natural History Museum to produce a detailed list of the species Wallace collected," explains Beccaloni. "It is a difficult task because the information about them is scattered through the scientific literature of the last 163 years, in an estimated 400 or more publications. To find these requires considerable detective work."<br /><br />Fortunately, the Biodiversity Heritage Library is making it considerably easier for Beccaloni to access the publications he needs for this research.<br /><br />"BHL is an absolutely fantastic resource which is very important to my work," affirms Beccaloni. "Locating mentions of Wallace specimens is tricky, but at least most of the articles are now available in the BHL. If they weren't, it would mean going to a specialist library and searching through the physical publications, which would take a lot more effort and be logistically difficult."<br /><br />Once a catalog of Wallace's specimens is completed, it can be used to help track down the physical specimens in London's Natural History Museum and other museum collections, leading to increased global access to Wallace's specimens through digitization.<br /><br />"The specimens can be digitized and the images and data made freely available on the Internet," says Beccaloni. "Colleagues in Southeast Asia view this as 'digital repatriation' of the material Wallace collected in their countries."<br /><br />In addition to his work related to Alfred Russel Wallace (including the <a href="http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage">Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project</a>, <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/wallacelettersonline">Wallace Letters Online</a> and <a href="http://wallacefund.info/">The Wallace Website</a>), Beccaloni is also a specialist in the taxonomy and ecology of butterflies and orthopteroid insects (especially cockroaches). He is the founder and author of the <a href="http://cockroach.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Cockroach/HomePage.aspx">Cockroach Species File</a>, a world catalog of cockroaches. Again, BHL provides access to key resources.<br /><br />"For my work on the Cockroach Species File, I often need copies of old and often obscure taxonomic papers, which fortunately I am usually able to find in the BHL," says Beccaloni.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G6dWwNi8kgw/WfiwV7RcnCI/AAAAAAAAHNI/Pih675dE5ugYL0sXYYkKw4SHZyI4uGzDQCLcBGAs/s1600/CockroachSpeciesFile.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1089" height="303" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G6dWwNi8kgw/WfiwV7RcnCI/AAAAAAAAHNI/Pih675dE5ugYL0sXYYkKw4SHZyI4uGzDQCLcBGAs/s400/CockroachSpeciesFile.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homepage of the <a href="http://cockroach.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Cockroach/HomePage.aspx">Cockroach Species File</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Beccaloni's favorite BHL feature is the ability to generate custom PDFs of relevant pages, eliminating the need to download an entire journal volume. To further improve the efficiency of his research, Beccaloni notes that the ability to search the full text of BHL's collections for specific search terms (e.g. "Wallace") would be of considerable value.<br /><br />Full text search is a feature that BHL's users have long-requested, and we are happy to confirm that its development is currently underway! Through increased research efficiency, full text search will enhance BHL's ability to inspire discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge. Stay tuned for more information on this new service.<br /><br />Alfred Russel Wallace was truly a pioneer who left behind a considerable scientific legacy. Thanks to the work of Dr. Beccaloni and others on the Wallace projects, this legacy is being documented and made more accessible to a worldwide audience. We are proud to know that BHL's collections are playing an important part in this valuable work.<br /><br />Explore the Alfred Russel Wallace projects below:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage">Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project</a></li><li><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/wallacelettersonline">Wallace Letters Online</a></li><li><a href="http://wallacefund.info/">The Wallace Website</a></li></ul><br /><b><i>By Grace Costantino&nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Outreach and Communication Manager &nbsp;</i></b><br /><b><i>Biodiversity Heritage Library&nbsp;</i></b><br /><br />______________________________________<br /><br /><i>This post may contain the personal opinions of BHL users or affiliated staff and does not necessarily represent the official Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) position on these matters.</i></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/11/bhl-facilitates-research-on-alfred.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (gduke)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-3924207081083367184Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +00002017-11-02T08:00:16.469-04:00BHL field notes projectBHLFNPfield notesUniversity of California Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology"Access to the original record...wherever we now work": Highlights from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology field notes collection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California Berkeley is a collaborative partner in the Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project. The MVZ has committed to digitizing 1,500 of its historic field notes as part of this collaborative undertaking.<br /><br />The MVZ’s storied field notebook collection was a concept developed at the founding of the museum by Joseph Grinnell, the MVZ’s founding director. From its earliest moments, Grinnell and the museum’s benefactress Annie Alexander discussed methods and curatorial best practices for the specimen collections and research. These ideas and principles around the organization of data recorded around collecting events evolved into Grinnell’s methodology for recording field notes. Early letters between Alexander and Grinnell in the later months of 1907 document their thoughtfulness, excitement, and collegial concern for establishing a research museum which would document the land fauna in the Western United States. Grinnell recognized that field notes would be the lasting primary source material that would document the biodiversity of the rapidly changing environment of the west in the early 20th century and in the future. In 1910 Grinnell famously wrote:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"At this point I wish to emphasize what I believe will ultimately prove to be the greatest value of our museum. This value will not, however, be realized until the lapse of many years, possibly a century, assuming that our material is safely preserved. And this is that the student of the future will have access to the original record of faunal conditions in California and the west, wherever we now work." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></blockquote>The MVZ’s digitized field note book collection is a testament to Grinnell’s enduring legacy. From Grinnell himself, to the life works of Wilbur Mayhew, it is impossible to cover all of the amazing personalities represented but the following selections highlight some of my favorite individuals and collecting efforts from the first 300 books digitized.<br /><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/fieldnotesclir2016?&amp;and[]=collection%3A%22museumofvertebratezoology%22&amp;and[]=Holmes">Arctic Research Laboratory</a><br />Frank A. Pitelka was a UC Berkeley Professor and MVZ Curator of Birds whose prolific career included collaborative research projects at the Arctic Research Laboratory from 1955-1973. Along with his students, Prof. Pitelka’s Barrow, Alaska field notes record distributional data, life histories and behavioral observations of shorebirds, brown lemmings, and other groups across the Alaskan North Slope Borough.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5kSpxk4-7zg/WfnKYH6hRQI/AAAAAAAAAss/hzfNFTfVkncNuxOwE7cFYjocJOGMgXYbACEwYBhgL/s1600/mvz1-Thomas%2BCuster.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="964" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5kSpxk4-7zg/WfnKYH6hRQI/AAAAAAAAAss/hzfNFTfVkncNuxOwE7cFYjocJOGMgXYbACEwYBhgL/s400/mvz1-Thomas%2BCuster.png" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas Custer, Barrow Alaska, circa 1970.</td></tr></tbody></table>The MVZ Archives has received much interest around field notes from this area and are excited to be able to provide access to this important record of the biodiversity of the Barrow region. Resurvey efforts in Alaska will be greatly supported by the field notes of Richard T. Holmes and the other Pitelka students who participated in the Arctic Research Laboratory.<br /><br /><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s1DSYldtjmE/WfnNAzEV7XI/AAAAAAAAAtI/CvddmVTZRwoFfzXsR1tMilXEehDjm0esgCLcBGAs/s1600/alaskaspeciesacc00holm_0551.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1071" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s1DSYldtjmE/WfnNAzEV7XI/AAAAAAAAAtI/CvddmVTZRwoFfzXsR1tMilXEehDjm0esgCLcBGAs/s400/alaskaspeciesacc00holm_0551.jpg" width="267" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard T. Holmes,&nbsp;<i><a href="https://archive.org/details/alaskaspeciesacc00holm">Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4220</a></i>, 1959-1964.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/fieldnotesclir2016?and[]=collection%3A%22museumofvertebratezoology%22&amp;and[]=Chester%20Barlow">Chester Barlow</a></div><div>Archivists read many obituaries over their careers and every once in awhile, someone’s life shines like a light emanating from the pages of their memoriams, correspondence and photos. Chester Barlow is one of those individuals. Barlow, a good friend and Stanford colleague of Joseph Grinnell, tragically died at the age of 28. Henry Reed Taylor’s published memoriam to Barlow begins with, “Words cannot tell, and the pen falters as a thing which is feeble-and futile in an effort to express all that is comprehended in the simple words, “Barlow is gone.” <span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>And when Walter E. Bryant died in 1905, Walter K. Fisher began his memoriam to Bryant by stating, “Not since the lamented Chester Barlow passed away, nearly three years ago, has the Society suffered so severe a loss as from the recent death of our esteemed honorary member, Walter E. Bryant. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2l3KwWy4SQg/WfnK6E1Ul7I/AAAAAAAAAtA/UVDnOge-lFkp4-gqBoIgAxHFXiOwVkzRACEwYBhgL/s1600/mvz2-Barlow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="708" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2l3KwWy4SQg/WfnK6E1Ul7I/AAAAAAAAAtA/UVDnOge-lFkp4-gqBoIgAxHFXiOwVkzRACEwYBhgL/s400/mvz2-Barlow.png" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Chester Barlow in woods."</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Barlow’s field notes and <a href="https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=MVZ&amp;where-collectn=mvz&amp;where-lifeform=any&amp;rel-photog_notes=matchboolean&amp;where-photog_notes=&amp;rel-location=matchphrase&amp;where-location=&amp;rel-country=eq&amp;where-country=any&amp;rel-state=eq&amp;where-state=any&amp;rel-county=eq&amp;where-county=any&amp;rel-photographer=eq&amp;where-photographer=Chester+Barlow+%28144%29&amp;rel-taxon=like&amp;where-taxon=&amp;rel-family=like&amp;where-family=&amp;rel-source_id_1=equals&amp;where-source_id_1=&amp;rel-specimen_no=like&amp;where-specimen_no=&amp;rel-photo_date1=after&amp;where-photo_date1=&amp;rel-photo_date2=before&amp;where-photo_date2=&amp;rel-kwid=equals&amp;where-kwid=&amp;max_rows=24&amp;orderby1=">photographs</a> are preserved in the MVZ Archives. His photos and field notes reveal a playful and eager bird enthusiast whose memory lived on in all who knew him. You can read Barlow’s entertaining <a href="https://archive.org/details/ornithologicalno00ches">Farallon Islands notebook</a> on the Internet Archive.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FZNF7S_cI-g/WfnR1AgRyBI/AAAAAAAAAt4/glPB7tyG15Qt2N1Ooo3dg64Bp-kUVGx4ACLcBGAs/s1600/ornithologicalno00ches_0056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1267" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FZNF7S_cI-g/WfnR1AgRyBI/AAAAAAAAAt4/glPB7tyG15Qt2N1Ooo3dg64Bp-kUVGx4ACLcBGAs/s320/ornithologicalno00ches_0056.jpg" width="253" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barlow, Chester. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ornithologicalno00ches"><i>Ornithological Notebook of C. Barlow with Original Observations Only</i></a>. (1892-1894).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/fieldnotesclir2016?and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22museumofvertebratezoology%22&amp;and%5B%5D=creator:%22Allen,%20Amelia%20S.%22">Amelia S. Allen</a><br />The MVZ Archives featured Amelia S. Allen in its <a href="https://mvzarchives.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/in-the-early-days/">blog four years ago</a>. Allen was one of the earliest women elected to the membership of the Cooper Ornithological Club. She served as Secretary of the Cooper Club’s Northern Division from 1916 to 1924. She then served as the group’s Vice President in 1925 and then elected President in 1926. Her field notes document the avifauna of the Berkeley region from 1901-1944 and include memoirs of life in Berkeley and membership in the Cooper Ornithological Club.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mS6dkj9vKd4/WfnUF_d9xCI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/776ty2netw8OSG6hWKZVxPb8ugRiBGwJQCLcBGAs/s1600/memoirbirdnotes00alle_0032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1011" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mS6dkj9vKd4/WfnUF_d9xCI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/776ty2netw8OSG6hWKZVxPb8ugRiBGwJQCLcBGAs/s320/memoirbirdnotes00alle_0032.jpg" width="202" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An example of Allen’s candid reflections from her 1930-1942 <a href="https://archive.org/details/memoirbirdnotes00alle">Memoir and Field notes</a> volume.</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://archive.org/details/fieldnotesclir2016?and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22museumofvertebratezoology%22&amp;and%5B%5D=Gifford"><br />Edward W. Gifford</a><br />Edward W. Gifford was the assistant curator of Ornithology at the California Academy of Sciences and later became a curator at the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. He kept an aviary at his Oakland home and donated his notes and birds to the MVZ throughout his life. But something very interesting caught my eye while prepping his volume for scanning. In his notes, he has a section recording his specimens that were burned in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Gifford was participating in the California Academy of Sciences’ Galapagos Expedition when the earthquake and fire destroyed much of San Francisco, including the California Academy of Sciences. The Galapagos specimens collected by Gifford and fellow expedition members would go on to establish the new specimen collections of the newly rebuilt California Academy of Sciences.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tMXd8f1mPRw/WfnPvwT5yWI/AAAAAAAAAts/m6eRGmReyOoK7OH2nZ5mdMxwV33G-EKeACLcBGAs/s1600/birdnotesaviaryb00giff_0183.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1145" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tMXd8f1mPRw/WfnPvwT5yWI/AAAAAAAAAts/m6eRGmReyOoK7OH2nZ5mdMxwV33G-EKeACLcBGAs/s320/birdnotesaviaryb00giff_0183.jpg" width="229" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Gifford, Edward W. <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/birdnotesaviaryb00giff">Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289</a></i>. (1904-1911).</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://archive.org/details/fieldnotesclir2016?and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22museumofvertebratezoology%22&amp;and%5B%5D=Elias"><br />Paul Elias</a><br />Paul Elias’s Guatemala field catalog and journal is a small and unassuming volume but it recounts an amazing journey filled with discoveries and critical data. Elias made this trip alone in the summer of 1974. He was 18 years old and an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, working at the MVZ. He collected two new genera of salamanders, later named Nyctanolis pernix and Bradytriton silus during this trip. Findings from this trip and the research of Prof. David B. Wake were published in a seminal paper in 1983. [4] It is difficult to imagine a trip like this taking place today. This is really only the beginning of Elias’s work with salamanders. <a href="https://www.globalwildlife.org/2015/06/26/salamanders-of-the-cuchumatanes-lost-and-found/">Robin Moore wrote an excellent piece</a> recounting Paul Elias and Jeremy Jackson’s return to the Guatemala’s Cuchumatane mountain range.<br /><br /><b>Written by:</b><br /><b>Christina Velazquez Fidler, Archivist</b><br /><b>Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley</b><br /><br /><i>The BHL Field Notes Project is funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] Grinnell, Joseph (1910). "The Methods and Uses of a Research Museum," <i>Popular Science Monthly</i>, 77, 163–169. <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1809048">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1809048</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">[2] Taylor, Henry Reed (1903). "In Memoriam: Chester Barlow (With Portrait)," <i>The Condor</i>, 5(1), 3-7. <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53586237">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53586237</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">[3] Fisher, W. (1905). "In Memoriam: Walter E. Bryant. Born 14th January, 1861. Died 21st May, 1905," <i>The Condor</i>, 7(5), 129-131. <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53610508">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53610508</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">[4] Elias, P., &amp; Wake, D. B. (1983). Nyctanolis pernix, a new genus and species of plethodontid salamander from northwestern Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. In <i>Advances in herpetology and evolutionary biology. Essays in honor of Ernest E. Williams. </i><a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37028275">https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37028275</a></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot;;"></span></span></div></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/11/access-to-original-recordwherever-we.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adriana Marroquin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-5348109326280146424Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +00002017-12-08T10:13:30.131-05:00#BHLNDSR#NDSRbhlndsrIMLSNDSRAnnouncing Five Webinars from BHL’s NDSR Residents!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">We are pleased to announce five webinars from <a href="http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/02/introducing-ndsr-at-bhl-cohort-and-blog.html">BHL’s NDSR residents</a>! Each resident has spent the past 10 months or so working hard on individual—yet inter-related—research projects to explore how we might best improve the features and functionality of BHL to incorporate new technologies and evolving best practices for digital libraries and the larger biodiversity community.&nbsp; <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zNK9clxQazA/WfeUrp3WUxI/AAAAAAAAHMo/JjqqYrpq50AKH4zO_woHPrxwFqmMfzKNQCLcBGAs/s1600/Residents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="878" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zNK9clxQazA/WfeUrp3WUxI/AAAAAAAAHMo/JjqqYrpq50AKH4zO_woHPrxwFqmMfzKNQCLcBGAs/s400/Residents.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The BHL NDSR Cohort, from left to right: Ariadne Rehbein, Pam McClanahan, Marissa Kings, Katie Mika, and Alicia Esquivel.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Each resident will be delivering a webinar, reporting on the results of their research to date along with their recommendations for BHL. You can find details and links to recordings of all of the webinars below.<br /><br /><b>Special thanks goes to <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/">iDigBio</a> for generously granting the BHL NDSR residents use of their AdobeConnect system!&nbsp;</b><br /><br /><b><u>BHL NDSR Webinar Schedule: Series One</u></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DkjdzIkAGNo/WfeUnRTPQxI/AAAAAAAAHMk/qSWcOxR0PgosSHmq6Jv8nBPnv7lIGlexACLcBGAs/s1600/BLOG%2BNDSR%2BWebinars%2BTwitter%2B%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DkjdzIkAGNo/WfeUnRTPQxI/AAAAAAAAHMk/qSWcOxR0PgosSHmq6Jv8nBPnv7lIGlexACLcBGAs/s400/BLOG%2BNDSR%2BWebinars%2BTwitter%2B%25281%2529.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>November 7, 2017 at 2:00pm ET</b><br />Alicia Esquivel, Chicago Botanic Garden<br />Biodiversity Heritage Library: NDSR Collections Analysis<br />Seminar Room: iDigBio Conference Room ( 500 )<br /><b>Recording:</b>&nbsp;<a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pcb8q6y4yy16/">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pcb8q6y4yy16/</a><br /><br /><b>November 9, 2017 at 2:00pm ET</b><br />Katie Mika, Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University<br />Biodiversity Heritage Library: Transcriptions, Crowdsourcing and Metadata<br />Seminar Room: iDigBio Conference Room ( 500 )<br /><b>Recording</b>: <a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pk7ctpfe00a4/">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pk7ctpfe00a4/</a><br /><br /><b>November 15 at 2:00pm ET</b><br />Pam McClanahan, Smithsonian Libraries<br />Biodiversity Heritage Library: User Studies<br />Seminar Room: iDigBio Conference Room ( 500 )<br /><b>Recording</b>:&nbsp;<a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pd0piuxxvs2z/">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pd0piuxxvs2z/</a><br /><br /><b><u>BHL NDSR Webinar Schedule: Series Two </u></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ledhUAVwFqQ/WgymJBuwYZI/AAAAAAAAHOk/V8KdwqUK7k8qPhzRsrFpsvyVVsCmyi3xQCLcBGAs/s400/Series%2BTwo%2BBLOG%2BNDSR%2BWebinars%2BTwitter.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ledhUAVwFqQ/WgymJBuwYZI/AAAAAAAAHOk/V8KdwqUK7k8qPhzRsrFpsvyVVsCmyi3xQCLcBGAs/s400/Series%2BTwo%2BBLOG%2BNDSR%2BWebinars%2BTwitter.png" width="400" /></a></div><b><br />November 27, 2017 at 2:00pm ET&nbsp;</b><br />Marissa Kings, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County<br />Biodiversity Heritage Library: Best Practices for Digital Libraries<br />Seminar Room: iDigBio Conference Room ( 500 ) <br /><b>Recording</b>:&nbsp;<a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pri8c4khg5sz/">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pri8c4khg5sz/</a><br /><br /><b>December 5, 2017 at 2:00pm ET</b><br />Ariadne Rehbein, Missouri Botanical Garden<br />Biodiversity Heritage Library: Enabling Image Discovery<br />Seminar Room: iDigBio Conference Room ( 500 )<br /><b>Recording</b>:&nbsp;<a href="http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pf9sm774sjd8/">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pf9sm774sjd8/</a>&nbsp;<b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b>New to Adobe Connect?</b> We recommend following the link to the webinar about 15-20 minutes before the start time to install any add-ins as needed and to run the Audio Wizard. Please note that sometimes after running the Audio Wizard, you may still need to click on the picture of the microphone to connect the microphone. Should you have any questions, we’ll also be monitoring the chat throughout. Hope you can join us! </div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/11/announcing-five-webinars-from-bhls-ndsr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Biodiversity Heritage Library)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-6018069951680719084Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:00:00 +00002017-10-31T14:00:01.792-04:00finlandGBIFGBIF24Exporing Finnish biodiversity during GBIF 24<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3>Biodiversity Excursions</h3><div class="MsoNormal">BHL Chair Constance Rinaldo and BHL Program Director Martin Kalfatovic each took advantage of the opportunities provided by our Finnish hosts of GBIF 24 for excursions to explore Finnish biodiversity. Rinaldo explored Nuuksio National Park and Kalfatovic, Vallisaari and Suomenlinna.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Nuuksio National Park</b><u5:p class=""></u5:p><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">FinBio organized a trip to&nbsp;<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nationalparks.fi_nuuksionp&amp;d=DwMF-g&amp;c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&amp;r=j1Xr4DSH9BbW6JjvkKmN95MaY2B7j1HqlmHGfHESi9k&amp;m=cdnrKFOmlhl44j29XV6QzwYVMnWXBIoF8K0bay4L5v0&amp;s=xTyKuabJxMuf6MeCOHjPnmOybSg8ie0u-EW3a3iSNmU&amp;e="><span style="color: #386eff;">Nuuksio National Park</span></a>&nbsp;which is located on the border of an oak forest zone and the southern boreal forest zone. Prominent in the landscape are valleys and gorges formed by glaciers and barren rocky hills covered by lichen and sparse pine forest. At some places the hills reach 110 meters above sea level. &nbsp;This beautiful park is less than an hour’s drive from Helsinki and has wild trails and many lakes. &nbsp;We wandered the trails with our guide from <a href="http://en.greenwindow.fi/">Green Window</a>&nbsp;and hunted mushrooms under the tutelage of Tea von Bonsdorff&nbsp;from the Finnish Natural History Museum.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YD_tesYU3gQ/WfMqif7O0mI/AAAAAAABH_s/_3OoTSvytVsPXfLGC4RpcEgSplPriM-dwCLcBGAs/s1600/CR1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YD_tesYU3gQ/WfMqif7O0mI/AAAAAAABH_s/_3OoTSvytVsPXfLGC4RpcEgSplPriM-dwCLcBGAs/s320/CR1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Along the way we foraged on bilberries (probably<i>Vaccinium myrtillus</i><i><span style="color: #4d4d4d;">)&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</i>and lingon berries (<i>Vaccinium vitis-idaea</i>) while viewing the beautiful landscapes. &nbsp;In the Helsinki market, bilberries were sold as “sour blueberries” alongside “sweet blueberries”. &nbsp;While they were slightly more sour than a standard blueberry, they were delicious. The lingon berries were sweeter than the cranberries (<i>Vaccinium macrocarpon</i>) we find in eastern North America but still had a bite.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ytP7OViD3LQ/WfMqiZsxFXI/AAAAAAABH_k/yMzfEVXq06QQsCEdHa3aWeMMTA5jQGi6QCEwYBhgL/s1600/CR2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ytP7OViD3LQ/WfMqiZsxFXI/AAAAAAABH_k/yMzfEVXq06QQsCEdHa3aWeMMTA5jQGi6QCEwYBhgL/s320/CR2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">After about&nbsp;2 hours of mushroom hunting, we arrived at the Kattila Lappih Hut where we were treated to a lunch of salmon and potatoes cooked over an open fire. &nbsp;Lunch was served at long wooden tables with candles and we sat on benches covered with reindeer furs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jM0kAAABiqY/WfMqi0JkR2I/AAAAAAABH_w/bC3cJmDH-b0irKrLWXloMSU9Q2EFUOVSQCEwYBhgL/s1600/CR4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jM0kAAABiqY/WfMqi0JkR2I/AAAAAAABH_w/bC3cJmDH-b0irKrLWXloMSU9Q2EFUOVSQCEwYBhgL/s320/CR4.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;<u5:p class=""></u5:p><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Following the delicious lunch we set off on our own. &nbsp;Some of us continued to hunt mushrooms on foot. &nbsp;Others headed out in canoes to explore the lake near the Green Window conference&nbsp;<u5:p class=""></u5:p></span></span>facility.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjS_ey_OR-I/WfMqiY2hI0I/AAAAAAABH_o/UjocbQ4ZWyEJXgdJAJPGSzcbmaSrKDRzACEwYBhgL/s1600/CR3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjS_ey_OR-I/WfMqiY2hI0I/AAAAAAABH_o/UjocbQ4ZWyEJXgdJAJPGSzcbmaSrKDRzACEwYBhgL/s320/CR3.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cortinarius rubellus</i> (deadly webcap)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div><b>Vallisaari and Suomenlinna</b><br /><a href="http://www.nationalparks.fi/vallisaari">Vallisaari&nbsp;</a>is just 20 minutes by boat from the Market Square in Helsinki. The island was opened for the public last year – before that it was decades abandoned and the nature took its place. Vallisaari is the most diverse nature destination in the metropolitan area. The island’s fortifications, buildings, and a record-breaking range of species tell a tale of coexistence between humans and wild nature. The other attraction, fortress of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.suomenlinna.fi/en/">Suomenlinna</a>,&nbsp;is one of Finland’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Suomenlinna was built during the Swedish era as a maritime fortress and a base for the Archipelago Fleet.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BNJOIf84464/Wey8o2eqGGI/AAAAAAABH3I/kkcea6UYL1c4XuXVaKZhxZoNUuT-rh_agCLcBGAs/s1600/2017.09.29-DSC04785.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BNJOIf84464/Wey8o2eqGGI/AAAAAAABH3I/kkcea6UYL1c4XuXVaKZhxZoNUuT-rh_agCLcBGAs/s320/2017.09.29-DSC04785.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Excursion to Vallisaari</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b><i>By:</i></b><br /><b><i>Martin Kalfatovic</i></b><br /><b><i>BHL Program Director</i></b><br /><b><i>and</i></b><br /><b><i>Constance Rinaldo</i></b><br /><b><i>Chair, BHL Members' Council</i></b><br /><b><i>Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University</i></b></div></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/10/exporing-finnish-biodiversity-during.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin Kalfatovic)0Finland61.924109999999992 25.74815109999997347.674139499999995 -15.560442900000027 76.174080499999988 67.056745099999972tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622149946604925423.post-2978652982164616491Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +00002017-10-31T08:00:08.546-04:00GBIFGBIF24Meetings24th meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Governing Board <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The 24th meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Governing Board and associated events were held in Helsinki, Finland, 24-29 September. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) was represented at both the 14th GBIF Nodes Meeting (24-25 September 2017, by BHL Program Director, Martin R. Kalfatovic) and the Governing Board Meeting (26-27 September 2017, by BHL Chair, Constance Rinaldo).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U1WGvVuD5uI/Wey8DX3Cw0I/AAAAAAABH3A/VXhhHFF03kYOnp64N8I2UCkxHumaa69uQCEwYBhgL/s1600/2017-09-26%2B10.53.27.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U1WGvVuD5uI/Wey8DX3Cw0I/AAAAAAABH3A/VXhhHFF03kYOnp64N8I2UCkxHumaa69uQCEwYBhgL/s320/2017-09-26%2B10.53.27.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BHL Head of Delegation, Constance Rinaldo</td></tr></tbody></table><h3><b>14th Global Nodes Meeting</b></h3>At the Nodes meeting, the delegates were welcomed by Finnish GBIF Nodes Manager, Tapani Lahti. Following this, André Heughebaert, Chair, Nodes Committee, provided an introduction to the structure of the meeting and outlined the key goals:<br /><br /><ul><li>Share information on progress in the nodes</li><li>Establish new collaboration models</li><li>Set priorities for the next 2 years</li></ul><br />Heughebaert also outlined some elements of the GBIF 2018 Work Programme and noted that there are plans to include regional meetings as in the past. The GBIF Secretariat provide an overview of their activities, led by Tim Hirsch (Deputy Director, GBIF Secretariat). Hirsch's talk, "GBIF International landscape &amp; New regions" was an overview of the GBIF international landscape, including participation by area and how different metrics can be used to measure participation and/or coverage of biodiversity data in GBIF. Some key things that GBIF is addressing are:<br /><br /><ul><li>Address major geospacial gaps</li><li>Mobilize sampling-event data</li><li>Digitize natural history collections</li></ul><br />Areas being focused on include the Caribbean (formation of an Atlas of Living Caribbean) and Pacific Islands (creating new participant options, including a meeting in Samoa).<br /><br />Hirsch also noted that GBIF is the key reporting structure for <a href="https://www.cbd.int/aichi-targets/target/19">Aichi Target 19</a>&nbsp; of the Convention on Biological Diversity. He also discussed GBIF's relation to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and how GBIF can engage in filling gaps in knowledge through data mobilization priorities.<br /><br />Other Secretariat updates included:<br /><br /><ul><li>Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) / Aisha Lolila Jensen (Program Officer for Participation and Engagement, GBIF Secretariat)</li><li>Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) / Laura Russell (Program Officer for Participation and Engagement, GBIF Secretariat)</li><li>Biodiversity Fund for Asia (BIFA) / Maofang Luo (Visiting Scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, GBIF Secretariat)</li><li>IPT GBIF API and other tools / Laura Russell&nbsp; (Program Officer for Participation and Engagement, GBIF Secretariat)</li><li>Presentation of the new GBIF Portal / Morten Høfft &amp; Thomas S. Jeppesen (Web Developers, GBIF Secretariat)</li></ul>The second session included short talks by members of the GBIF node community and included:<br /><br /><ul><li>Description of the Antarctic Thematic GBIF Node, Strength &amp; Weaknesses / Anton Van de Putte, Node manager, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)&nbsp;</li><li>SiB Colombia role as a referent in the Latino American initiatives through GBIF (e.g. workshops, projects, mentoring) / Leonardo Buitrago, Node manager, Colombia&nbsp;</li><li>Data management: Stable identifiers for collection specimens: What could the Nodes do to spread the use of this practice? / Walter Berendsohn &amp; Anton Güntsch, Node manager, Germany&nbsp;</li><li>Olaf Banki on the @catalogueoflife CoL+ which provides extended taxonomic catalogue &amp; other goals with other partners incl @NLBIF @GBIF @Naturalis_Sci Species2000 ITIS&nbsp;</li><li>GBIF Norway: Software tools for online citizen science volunteer digitization of museum herbaria collections (<a href="https://data.gbif.no/dugnad">https://data.gbif.no/dugnad</a>)&nbsp;By Christian Svindseth, Node staff, Norway</li><li>GBIF Norway: Terms selection tool for data publishers (<a href="https://data.gbif.no/dwcexcel">https://data.gbif.no/dwcexcel</a>) By Christian Svindseth, Node staff, Norway&nbsp;</li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QelyREyIvl4/Wey7ka4RltI/AAAAAAABH20/X4GKD6INCiosRqkGzXsE5kUUzfz9U2VDwCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-25%2B20.15.24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QelyREyIvl4/Wey7ka4RltI/AAAAAAABH20/X4GKD6INCiosRqkGzXsE5kUUzfz9U2VDwCLcBGAs/s320/2017-09-25%2B20.15.24.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swan wings</td></tr></tbody></table><br />A tour of the Finnish Museum of Natural History's herbarium scanning project was also provided at the lunch break. The day concluded with a reception at the Finnish Museum of Natural History. Delegates were also privileged to get a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum's collections areas.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bSUG63lbk4c/Wey7w8sH2VI/AAAAAAABH24/7gu7n1XM0IwBS4653w7dnGOiROpjCgTcwCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-25%2B19.24.08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bSUG63lbk4c/Wey7w8sH2VI/AAAAAAABH24/7gu7n1XM0IwBS4653w7dnGOiROpjCgTcwCLcBGAs/s320/2017-09-25%2B19.24.08.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reception with dinosaurs</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-itX-p_C3A4A/Wey5Yf9w_ZI/AAAAAAABH10/TZYv04BhkGcD8ofJq4Wv0imEwlNdjVqZgCLcBGAs/s1600/GNM14_group.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="837" data-original-width="1600" height="167" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-itX-p_C3A4A/Wey5Yf9w_ZI/AAAAAAABH10/TZYv04BhkGcD8ofJq4Wv0imEwlNdjVqZgCLcBGAs/s320/GNM14_group.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Global Nodes meeting group photo<br />(Photo by Anne Mette Nielsen, CC BY-NC 4.0)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * *&nbsp;</div><br /><h3><b>24th GBIF Governing Board Meeting</b></h3>GBIF Governing Board Chair Peter Schalk (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden) and Donald Hobern (GBIF Executive Secretary) led the meeting and provided an overview of the past year. There was also a discussion of the GBIF Strategic Plan Goals and Work Programme updates. The plan goals were discussed in detail:<br /><br /><ul><li>Strategic Plan Goal 1 – Empower Global Network <br />“Ensure that governments, researchers and users are equipped and supported to share, improve and use data through the GBIF network, regardless of geography, language or institutional affiliation.”&nbsp;</li><li>Strategic Plan Goal 2 – Enhance Biodiversity Information Infrastructure <br />“Provide leadership, expertise and tools to support the integration of all biodiversity information as an interconnected digital knowledgebase.”&nbsp;</li><li>Strategic Plan Goal 3 – Fill Data Gaps <br />“Prioritize and promote mobilization of new data resources which combine with existing resources to maximize the coverage, completeness and resolution of GBIF data, particularly with respect to taxonomy, geography and time.”&nbsp;</li><li>Strategic Plan Goal 4 – Improve Data Quality <br />“Ensure that all data within the GBIF network are of the highest-possible quality and associated with clear indicators enabling users to assess their origin, relevance and usefulness for any application.”&nbsp;</li><li>Strategic Plan Goal 5 – Deliver Relevant Data <br />Ensure that GBIF delivers data in the form and completeness required to meet the highest priority needs of science and, through science, society.”&nbsp;</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>The meeting also presented the winners of the 2017 Young Researchers Award:<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.gbif.org/news/2F6AvopIH6Kw2cKMak6qUM/escribano-becomes-first-spaniard-to-win-gbif-young-researchers-award">Nora Escribano Compains</a>, a Ph.D candidate at the University of Navarra (UNAV)</li><li><a href="https://www.gbif.org/news/5dtOd7KtLik6kAKg44YIK8/fernandes-becomes-second-consecutive-brazilian-to-win-gbif-young-researchers-award">Itanna Oliveira Fernandes</a>, a Ph.D candidate at the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA)</li></ul><br />In official business, the various GBIF Committee chairs (Science, Nodes, Budget) all reported. Hobern also presented the 2018 budget and work programme. Ireland was selected as the host for the 2018 GBIF 25th meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Governing Board, and Governing Board positions were voted on. Results of the elections were:<br /><br /><ul><li>Chair, Governing Board: Tanya Abrahamse, South Africa</li><li>2nd Vice Chair, Governing Board: Mark Graham, Canada</li><li>Chair, Budget Committee: Peter Schalk, Netherlands</li><li>1st Vice-Chair, Budget Committee: Liam Lysaght, Ireland</li><li>2nd Vice-Chair, Budget Committee: Joanne Daly, Australia</li><li>Chair, Science Committee: Thomas M. Orrell, United States</li><li>2nd Vice-Chair, Science Committee: Anders G. Finstad, Norway</li><li>3rd Vice-Chair, Science Committee: Philippe Grandcolas, France</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DMcw7QnU-qc/Wey5oqpYVLI/AAAAAAABH14/QsGCysZWxnwwz_a0VLtYertOJN-N4RjtwCLcBGAs/s1600/GB24_group.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DMcw7QnU-qc/Wey5oqpYVLI/AAAAAAABH14/QsGCysZWxnwwz_a0VLtYertOJN-N4RjtwCLcBGAs/s320/GB24_group.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Governing Board meeting group photo<br />(Photo by Linda Tammisto, CC0 2017)</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * *&nbsp;</div><br /><h3><b>Finnish National Seminar</b></h3><div>All delegates and other guests were invited to the <a href="https://laji.fi/news/1749">Finish National Seminar</a>, "Finnish Biodiversity Information for the Benefit of Society".&nbsp; The national seminar is a full-day event with talks from invited international and Finnish guest speakers including researchers of various fields as well as representatives of the natural resources administration. The programme gives broad insight into the various uses of openly available biodiversity data in research, governance, and teaching, and introduces the newly established Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility (FinBIF).</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tXN_IQRO964/Wey6E76pp5I/AAAAAAABH2M/NGYjyBQH3UwMjinlsChVMH7LeffsRI6ywCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-28%2B09.00.12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tXN_IQRO964/Wey6E76pp5I/AAAAAAABH2M/NGYjyBQH3UwMjinlsChVMH7LeffsRI6ywCLcBGAs/s320/2017-09-28%2B09.00.12.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Professor Leif Schulman</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><br /></div>Professor Leif Schulman, Director of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (and GBIF Head of Delegation for Finland) provided a brilliant opening to the Seminar (which was held in the beautiful Great Hall of the University of Helsinki) by pacing four meters across the stage and noting that it was this distance that birds in Finland are moving north due to climate change. Schulman also introduced Finnish Member of Parliment Ville Niinistö (Minister of the Environment in 2011-2014, led to the funding of FinBIF) who provided a governmental perspective on biodiversity.<br /><br />GBIF Executive Secretary Donald Hobern provided an overview of GBIF's activities and goals and was followed by FinBIF Manager Kari Lahti who contextualized this work within the Finnish context. Dr. Vincent Smith (Head of Diversity &amp; Informatics Division, Natural History Museum, London), provided a keynote talk, "The Digital Transformation of Biodiversity Institutions - a Changing Intellectual Business Model".<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D8IjyEPMHeI/Wey6UCpYgbI/AAAAAAABH2Q/v-wBvzfwcGE10FITd-r0_dVdi8eAi2kZwCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-28%2B09.16.00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D8IjyEPMHeI/Wey6UCpYgbI/AAAAAAABH2Q/v-wBvzfwcGE10FITd-r0_dVdi8eAi2kZwCLcBGAs/s320/2017-09-28%2B09.16.00.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Executive Secretary Donald Hobern</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Researchers from across Finland then provided a series of talks that delved deeper into programs and investigations that FinBIF, GBIF, and other global biodiversity research organizations are facilitating. The talks included:<br /><br /><ul><li>Research Director Atte Moilanen (University of Helsinki &amp; FinBIF)</li><li>Associate Professor Tuuli Toivonen (University of Helsinki)</li><li>University Researcher Sami Aikio (University of Oulu)</li><li>Post Doc Researcher Andrea Santangeli (Finnish Museum of Natural History)</li><li>Research Director Ilari Sääksjärvi (University of Turku)</li><li>Senior Curator Marko Mutanen (University of Oulu Biodiversity Unit)</li><li>Professor Jouko Rikkinen (Finnish Museum of Natural History &amp; Faculty of Biosciences, University of Helsinki)</li><li>Ministerial Adviser Johanna Niemivuo-Lahti, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry</li><li>Dr. Aino Juslén, Unit Director at the Finnish Museum of Natural History</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u8_efzbFHcA/Wey63kEntdI/AAAAAAABH2g/Qkyf4oyj684o3m0APJ1bgu_PPkAdisbhgCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-28%2B11.33.02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u8_efzbFHcA/Wey63kEntdI/AAAAAAABH2g/Qkyf4oyj684o3m0APJ1bgu_PPkAdisbhgCLcBGAs/s320/2017-09-28%2B11.33.02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * *&nbsp;</div><h3>Other Meetings</h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1-mJbop63Vg/Wey7MNdIMeI/AAAAAAABH2o/sskc13nXW1YcfMBjbIKmXpNUGYQQfCNzgCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-25%2B16.54.52.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1-mJbop63Vg/Wey7MNdIMeI/AAAAAAABH2o/sskc13nXW1YcfMBjbIKmXpNUGYQQfCNzgCLcBGAs/s320/2017-09-25%2B16.54.52.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Xu &amp; Kalfatovic</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The meetings also allowed BHL staff to meet with a number of our partners including Dr. Zheping Xu (BHL China) and Patricia Koleff (BHL México). Discussions with Michelle Price (Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève) and Chair of <a href="http://www.cetaf.org/">Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities</a> (CETAF AISBL) provided an opportunity to explore possible collaborations.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bo6k_cecCaw/Wey6_Nzd3uI/AAAAAAABH2k/3UVWAzazUIQ00otPQzwIsZ7r0rKcRXhRgCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-28%2B16.50.46.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bo6k_cecCaw/Wey6_Nzd3uI/AAAAAAABH2k/3UVWAzazUIQ00otPQzwIsZ7r0rKcRXhRgCLcBGAs/s320/2017-09-28%2B16.50.46.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rinaldo, Koleff, Kalfatovic</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Rinaldo and Kalfatovic were also able to spend time with outgoing GBIF Science Committee Chair and BHL power user Rod Page to discuss ongoing work with the BHL portal. The GBIF meetings also provided a good opportunity to catch up with staff from <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/">iDigBio</a>, including Deb Paul (Digitization and Technology Specialist).<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * *&nbsp;</div><h3>Other Resources</h3><br /><ul><li><a href="https://gb24.gbif.org/">Meeting Page</a></li><li><a href="https://gb24.gbif.org/en/meeting-documents/">GBIF Meeting Documents</a></li><li><a href="https://gbif.app.box.com/s/mq1q92j9lqxfxatb80sjkzk33z3njkim">GBIF Presentations</a></li><li><a href="https://gbif.app.box.com/s/mq1q92j9lqxfxatb80sjkzk33z3njkim">Videos</a></li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jc2-nDDzzbw/Wey89LuwU8I/AAAAAAABH3M/0oKCbv4YHl4JU_tBQU-W1CkHTsMJnpHcgCLcBGAs/s1600/2017.09.29-DSC04728.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jc2-nDDzzbw/Wey89LuwU8I/AAAAAAABH3M/0oKCbv4YHl4JU_tBQU-W1CkHTsMJnpHcgCLcBGAs/s320/2017.09.29-DSC04728.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Amanita muscaria</i>, Vallisaari, Finland</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b><i>By:</i></b><br /><b><i>Martin Kalfatovic</i></b><br /><b><i>BHL Program Director</i></b><br /><b><i>and</i></b><br /><b><i>Constance Rinaldo</i></b><br /><b><i>Chair, BHL Members' Council</i></b><br /><b><i>Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University</i></b></div>http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2017/10/24th-meeting-of-global-biodiversity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin Kalfatovic)0Helsinki, Finland60.169855699999992 24.9383791000000259.663417699999989 23.647485600000021 60.676293699999995 26.229272600000019